Rhys-I read the well researched article out of Classic Car mag on T70
However I want to do my own research as I have the original white in excellently preserved condition and its different to whats on the Lola.
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Rhys-I read the well researched article out of Classic Car mag on T70
However I want to do my own research as I have the original white in excellently preserved condition and its different to whats on the Lola.
John, Cambridge was owned by British Imperial Tobacco distributed in NZ by that company in Napier...still there today. It is a gamble but why don't you contact them, explain the situation and ask them do they have the old records of the paint colours used in advertising. Most corporate companies were very strict in regard to advertising and had references to the correct paint colours to use and the paint manufacture. Best of luck, Bruce
I tried contacting the US company who now "own" the brand. They said they did not have any records of the color codes. (Worth a try :) )
Yeah a hard one aye...in todays PC world tobacco advertising is frowned on. :p
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Looking good John.
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Your Monaro is taking shape now, I am guessing you have a donor Car to get a lot of part off?
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I would have thought with the work put into the Monaro Bill would have raced it for longer. Did you find any information on Denis Hamill who bought the Monaro from Bill Minty?.
Trade me is a good place to buy Monaro parts. I have bought a few Monaro parts here including a mint condition Bonnet.
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Hi John, I found a team Cambridge decal inside a box I used as a fid to carry slot cars, you are more than welcome to it if I knew where to send it. Barry Leitch.
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Wow John, what a great find and better than an old ciggy packet.
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Interesting photo, is that a promotional Monaro in background, looks like no flares etc.
Did the old girl run in Winfield colours, can not remember.
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Looking at the tail lights of the Monaro in your photo Rod, it looks like an HT. Must have been a Winfield promo car.
Or tow car.
John, Tell us about this one,
http://i39.tinypic.com/2rcnz1t.jpg
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John, printing inks have what is called a PMS code, and paint has a paint code. If you take that decal to a good automotive paint retailer, they can scan it and mix the closest possible colours to it. That is your only real option.
I agree, the scanners are just amazing John. Good Luck
I have the ex Laffite Gitanes Ralt RT4 and when I was looking for paint colours I went to an enthusiastic paint supplier ( Motorsport Fan ) and he went back to the old formulas and hunted through them and found that it was painted in Gitanes corporate colours, maybe the Cambridge colours are corporate colours as well.
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YOU HAVE A WIFE!! geee we'd did i go wrong!!:( (A big LOL)
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You doing alright Dale, don't weaken now.
Or as an old friend of mine once said "Why would I have a wife of my own when I can use everybody else's one".
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That's really good news regarding the seats John. Nice to have those parts.
Hi John, That's a good price for your hK steering wheel, I see rare spares have them for over $700, Is the HT Steering wheel the same as the HK, With my wheel it has been fixed as the plastic is cracked and has been filled in, Look bad, Cheers
Linz- HK always has this woodgrain effect. Do you remember how we met through that Bathurst 350 motor- his was HT and had this wood type wheel.There is a second hand repaired one on trade me, but thats what it is- old and cracked . I got mine using evilbay from Big City Corvettes .
A story on HK steering wheels.......
When Beechey had his Warwick Yellow GTS 327 he came to Symmons when it was fairly new (3-4 months old) He related how he had ordered this "special" racing steering wheel from the States only to find when it arrived it was exactly the same as the standard GTS wheel already fitted.
This was at that meeting....
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...psedd4dffb.jpg