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Here's a good one.
My JG 66 XA GT came with a black fuel cap but many of the originals I see about have a brushed chrome cap with chrome surround .
Was black an option back in 1972?
Many of the XCs I have seem come with black
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You sure it came with that cap? Standard XA GT fuel cap was non locking silver satin finish from memory. Is the gasket inside the cap rubber or cork?
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Hi Paul
The gasket is cork. I agree with the Saturn rubber finishnas standard. I have had a few GTs. This one may have been in crash and in the late 80s and had the cap replaced with tune wrong type.
The trim around the rear screen is also black but I am sure that some of the Xbs and Xas had this as well as bright |
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XC was black. I believe the black ones were also hinged differently
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I've seen the satin black on a few XA GT coupes with the rear screen. If you have a cork gasket in the fuel cap it shoots down my theory it's a XC cap. I'm thinking someone has painted the silver satin cap black at some stage, maybe during the weird 80s? Not sure about the XC rear screens being hinged differently gcg2503. I've never pulled the back window out of a XC coupe before. For the life of me I can't see how it would be different though.
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Thanks Paul
What I might do is see if I can carefully scrape an edge of the cap to see if it's been painted
I am going to faithfully restore this car so at the end of the day I would agree with you that the cap should be brushed chrome finish
Also interested to know when inertia reel seat belts came on line with the X series falcons . I think it was about the time we went metric from memory and this happened during the XA series. . This car is missing all of the seat belts and the rear inside quarter trims have plugs in the holes where the plastic holders for the male seat belt buckles go, if all of that makes sense. |
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Best thing to do is ring Ford or get in touch with the GT Historian and he'll tell you what sort of seatbelts your car had. Go to http://www.falcongtclub.org/ sign up in the forum section and they should be able to help. I know the Falcons had the seat belt holding plugs in the back but I think the GTs and fairmonts didn't. XB fairmont and GT coupes didn't have them though the Falcon XB coupes did. I'm not that knowledgable on the XAs. What colour interior is your car? have you got some photos you can put up?
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Color of interior is black .I will try and get some photos up if I can figure out how to upload on this site. Can I say that this is the best forum site that I have been part of. Many of the answers to questions are so spot on and helpful. Great to be a part of. Thanks Paul
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To upload photos here you need to use a photo hosting site. There are lots out there, I use photobucket as it's free and just happened to be the first photo hosting site I came across. www.photobucket.com It's pretty easy once you get used to it. You sign up, upload some pics to the site then open a second window and bring up fastlane. Go to whatever pic you want to show here and click on the "img" window under the photo. Start a message here, right click and paste. 
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