I had been debating for a while on how I was going to paint the bike. After looking at the bikes weathered Benelli tank for a long time I decided that it's patina was way too cool to sand off. I am going to replicate the tanks patina on the rest of the bike, this will not be a rat bike by any means, I just want it to look like it was an original cafe racer from the sixties that I dug out of a barn and cleaned up.

Here is my attempt at making a one week old seat look fifty years old, I carefully replicated the tanks layers of paint, even the pin striping. Then I took fine sand paper and sos pads to it until it matched the tank.