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hi all i'm ne to this so please be gentle with me. i'm trying to purchase an hj 4 door gts monaro.I need to know how to tell if its origional or a kingswwood tricked up. i would like to restore it to origional condition and am prepared to start nearly from scratch. i'm loking at one that has amodel number of HJ8WQ69 body number 180116-A. hope you can help
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Well the 8WQ69 identifies it as a Monaro, but that's only one ID plate.
Give us all the details on the other plates and we can try to confirm it further.
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thanks for the help.I've only just seen the other plates they are as follows: 8Q69TFL334620J & 1,2,4C,5B,6,7,8,9,10B11,12,14,not readable,16,18,20,21,22A,23,24,25,27,28 01/76 BHJ 47576A Thats all that is readable. I'm hoping to know it's origion
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That looks like the same car you posted the BODY plate details off in an earlier post. It was a 308, TH400, 3.08 diffed 4-door GTS in Antelope paint (1894) with Chamois vinyl trim (60V). |
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thanks for that. what i'm really after is a hj monaro 4 door manderine red/orange, manual 4 speed, with chamois interior. The way i see it is it doesn't matter what it is now but what it was when it came off the line. We had one 22 years back and had to s
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On the TRIM line of the BODY plate 1890 is Mandarin red and Chamois trim is 60 with A,B,Z,V,X or Y suffix eg 1890-60X.
On the bottom of the BODY plate L31 is 308 and M21 is the 4-speed. The VIN of a 308 HJ GTS will start with 8Q69T for a 4-door or 8Q37 |
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thats great thanks for that.Now i dont need worry what it looks like now i can go straight to the plates and deceide. So anyone know where i might get hold of my dream car i'd prefer to rebuild rather than buy finished. Also i live in SA do i need to take
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In some states a gearbox change requires a cerificate and others it does not. The colour will have to be recorded with the registry along with an engine change.
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