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Team - new to forum and need some help
Can you decipher the following tag please
model HQ80269M
Body 22853B
Trim 1850 10C
Paint 568 15413
Car seems to be B 1972 HQ SS 253, infra red , hounds check interior but the M code in model line is throwing me?
All advice appreciated
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The M after the model code? That just means its a manual transmission. It certainly is a HQ SS in Bluey colour (GMH marketing called it Infra Red but internally it is called Bluey, the purple cars were called Smokey and the Green Lettus). |
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Originally Posted by: HK1837  The M after the model code? That just means its a manual transmission. It certainly is a HQ SS in Bluey colour (GMH marketing called it Infra Red but internally it is called Bluey, the purple cars were called Smokey and the Green Lettus). Yep green... Lettuce (not Lettus) if I recall correctly , from the days at GMH when colours were weird, just weird names there is even a colour (official too) available on LC Torana called 'Barney's Shirt'! |
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No it was Lettus, Smokey and Bluey. They even printed those names on the Broadcast Sheets. I have copies of at least one sheet of each colour. They later changed back to the regular way of doing it. |
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In the retail world they were known as Infra Red, Ultra Violet & Lettuce Alone.
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Yes they were the marketing/retail names. GMH called them different names internally. |
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