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scotty

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« on: December 22, 2007, 01:06:53 PM »
im restoring a 1977 te back to original can anyone tell me what colours the paint was released in? ive looked everywhere and cant seem to find anything
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« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2007, 02:51:40 PM »
what do you mean released?
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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2007, 06:20:17 PM »
colors and codes

m=satin spruce
e=frosted pine
o=modena green
w=platinum blue
A=blue steel B3 A
4=neptune blue
5=desert haze
s=brown satin
f=sweet cream
r=raw orange
p=pine n lime
h=red flame
9=snow white
this is from a cortina manual so you should be able to qoute the paint code to any paint shop with the year of the car for the color
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« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2007, 09:28:22 PM »
as in when they were sold new from the dealership wat colour options were there for the exterior
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« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2007, 09:30:16 AM »
these are the colors they came in ,check your id tag it should have a letter or a number under paint then ckeck that ltter or number with what i posted earlier and thats your color,hope this helps
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« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2007, 10:11:10 AM »
sweet work man... That should help heaps!
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« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2007, 09:44:38 PM »
thanx heaps that was a huge help she'll be gettin booked in for a fresh coat of desert haze in the next few weeks and should be back on the road in the next few months
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« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2007, 10:11:12 PM »
Dont forget to post some pics of the build up in the gallery too if you can mate :)
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« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2007, 05:18:59 PM »
yeh will do. shes far from a thing of beauty atm but it'll get there but hey i bought it off the original owner, with 123,000 original km's on the clock with no problems but brakes but i bled them and now they work fine for 100 bucks! ive been lookin for 1 of these for ages my old mans a cortina freak hes owned about 12 or 13 in his life with that many different motors its not funny and desided years ago that it was the car i wanted for my first car.so we pulled apart the motor and did a rebuild now its just body work and abit on interior and it should be gewd to put over the pits
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