This bike is a Monster 900s(1998) that a mate recently refurbed and the paintwork is Factory and is called "hot metal". A bit out there but was a $3000aud option on top of the list price back in the day. This is the first I've ever seen but apparently there were about a dozen choices of special paint on offer. Anybody else seen the other paint options?
I just started a thread in "Ducati Chat" with the options in it, it's called "Ducati Performance Catalogue"
As per my post before yours, these were options in the Ducati Performance Catalogue, which there is a copy of in the thread that I started, the Monster stuff is near the end, page 232 to 236,do not, if you value your eyesight go further and look at the Monster Special. http://www.maerz.biz/fileadmin/user...cati_downloads/zubehoer_kataloge/2000_zub.pdf