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a mate of mine just bought an hj gts monaro for 10k and we are trying to decipher the numbers for restoration purposes. any ideas on the following codes??
8p37reh851899
bhj21202s
model - 8wp37jr
body no - 851898-s
trim - 1895-607
paint - 567-15941
also while i'm at it, who knows the site where the paint code program's at?
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The car is a 253 HJ LS monaro in claret metallic paint with chamos and black trim with royal cord seat inserts, made in Sydney
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8P37R is a 253 Premier Coupe, Sydney body and built. Build date between Sep 74 and August 75. There should be a "J" at the end for HJ series.
60T would be Chamois trim with cloth inserts.
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warren, thanks heaps for you input, but i had the trim code wrong.. and ideas - 1895-50v
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Sure it's not 60V? Beige/Chamois (early) or Chamois/covert.
1895 is Claret as Warren stated above.
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I assumed you ment 60Z but 60V would be Chamois and covert vinyl, no 50V in my records for HJ monaro.
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we sorted it out, thanks for the input guys. now all's left to do is restore that and my hj sandy among others. long roads lie ahead i'd reckon...
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wasnt your mate annoyed it was not a GTS ?
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not really cos he reckons that there were only sonething like 1300 or so hj monaros made?? i dunno. he's got an xdub falcs with matching ##, a recently aquired fc in pieces, i zd fairlane with factory wind back sunroof(all up for resto) and a wb tunna as
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Annoyed it is not a GTS??? Why in hell would you be?? The HJ LS is the rarest monaro ever made. If I remember correctly, there was only around 400 ever built. That makes it rarer than the "rare" limited edition LE. And original HJ LS is worth big big m
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well that puts an interesting twist on thing. i knew they were rare but it's not 100% ridgy didge but its all there. does ne1 know if they had factory statesman dash statesman dash?? i would have thought it came out with a monaro/ gts dash(same as the hj
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337 made to be exact - 81 x 202ci, 150 x 253ci, 106 x 308ci. Not quite the rarest, but awful close - HQ 469 XW8 (GTS350 4 door) is rarer. There were 606 HJ GTS coupes made. An LS was a 2 door Premier so they would have had a Premier dash, but you could op |
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But the rarest coupe.
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I was always under the impression the standard HJ monaro was the rarest of all the monaro/GTS's something like less than 200 made before the base monaro was dropped.
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Hi Monaro202.
AFAIK there was no 'standard' Monaro released in the HJ series. The last standard one was an HQ. For HJ, there was only the LS 2-door coupe, the GTS 2-door coupe & the GTS 4-door sedan
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thanks byron, if you mean the rear spoiler then no, it hasn't got it. i'm trying to convince my mate (jason) to go as close to 100% original(not least because he's got a complete white need,silver facia GTS dash that a need) for obvious reasons but he won
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Not a spoiler, just the stainless strip that runs along the bottom edge of the boot.
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no i don't think it's got that chrome strip but it won't matter cos it's going to but modified more than it already is much to my dismay.. among other things, it's got rear bucket seats(they are pretty comfy), a hot 308, a tricked powerglide and rear airb
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I know that the GTS 350 sedan was "rarer" but Byron this was not a model as such where as the LS was. So the HQ GTS 350 sedan is not as rare as say a Brabham Torana, or many other low volume option packs. How about 250 VS 50th anniversary Statesmans, 150
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I agree it's just an optioned Kingswood. But no-one will pay top dollar for a Kingswood, and these command good $. I would move heaven and earth to get hold of one of these if I saw it in a wreckers, but I would just walk past a Kingswood. If an XW8 isn't |
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