G’day All,

Firstly this is just a question to satisfy my curiosity, sadly I don’t have the car any longer.

I’ve seen in a few books representations of paint colour codes. They all seem to note which colour roof - usually white - go with each body colour. They also note that there is no colour available for a white car. Yet, I have seen a few.

Between my father and I we owned a 69 HT Kingswood for about 12 years which was white with a gold roof, and the gold interior trim. It had the factory brightwork dividing the body colour and roof colours.

Did in fact the factory paint up a few white cars with a coloured roof? Or is it more likely that the selling dealership would have done it? One point that may indicate… something… is that the roof colours stopped at the top of the front pillars, it did not continue down the front pillars as is sometimes seen. That is, the front pillars were also white.

I have seen one other, in a street machine web post, another way in the distance in a car show you tube and personally a Torana and a HQ in the same format, gold over white. So they aren’t exactly falling from the trees.

I’d love to find out, even if it is just a probability thing.

Geoff

Edited by user Sunday, 12 January 2025 2:21:08 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I’m with Dr Terry. Only thing I’ve ever seen on a Holden or Statesman or Torana or Commodore before the shadow tone VH’s was white roofs or vinyl roofs. The exception being the HX 50th Anniversary cars.
I used to own a Pagewood built ‘57 Chevy. It was Shannon green but Stacks painted the roof and the side infills in a dark green which I suspect was the same green used with Shannon Green on FC.

Dark over light colour schemes were commonplace in FX/FJ days. White wasn't a thing back then, but dark green over light green or dark blue over light blue were available factory combinations. However by FC days the opposite was more trendy.

The only common dark colour over white body factory combinations that I know of were for HQ Vacationers.

Dr Terry