Note, he had driving lights fitted to his car. There was one XR GT built of this colour for Bill Bourke, then head of Ford Australia, and acknowledged to be the ‘father’ of the GT. Russet Bronze metallic, which was another non-option paint colour, Z782. For the record, the other four cars were one of each. If you have been doing the maths you will see we have accounted for 9 of the 13 non GT Gold cars. Hence, they all came together, to great effect, on the 1st of October, 1967. At the time Gallaher was sponsor of the 500 mile race at Mount Panorama, Bathurst Ford were keen to enter their new XR GT model in the race and Gallaher had a new range of cigarettes to promote, the GT King Size Filter. Gallaher commissoned Ford to build 8 XR GT’s painted colour F166, Gallaher Silver, and used them for promotion work. There only seems to be one ‘Avis’ colour listed in the Ford charts, and it is this white. The Dulux formula for Avis White is 8986.
#1963 ford falcon paint colors code
The colour scheme was also known as Y131, and it is the ‘Y’ code that most commonly appears on the compliance plate in the paint section as an alternative to the single digit alphanumeric code. In this context, F131 is the Ford fleet representation. These 13 cars were split between six further different colours, four of which were standard option colours for the XR model Falcon, and two of which were special ‘corporate’ colours. Of the 684 manufactured, 671 were gold, and 13 were not. The XR GT is most famously known for introducing the GT Gold paint colour, and most folk would be mistaken for believing that all XR GT’s were painted this colour.
As ever, we are highly indebted to the Falcon GT Club of Australia, their members, site webmaster and historian. We will restrict our examination of corporate colours to the GT model, for the simple reasons that the GT Falcons are the only models for which extensive figures and research has been released by Ford Australia, and the GT is now a highly collectable car with much interest shown in the cars providing a wide and historic photo database. Ford maintained a huge list of these colours based on Dulux formulae, and while they were usually restricted to vehicles supplied to the commercial organisations, occasionally, deliberately or by accident, these colours slipped out into the wider world. If the customer chose Red Pepper from the colour chart, we can see from the chart that that is paint code ‘X’ and hence, paint code ‘X’ shows up stamped on the compliance plate for the car, as below.įord of Australia was a large company, and Ford worldwide was huge, and they supplied many vehicles to many companies which were painted in what could could be termed ‘corporate colours’, in other words, a colour that was synonomous with that commercial organisation. These codes appeared on option specification sheets, and on the compliance plate of the car, but, as far as the customer was concerned, he or she was presented with a nice colour brochure from which to choose a colour.Īnd here is the specification and option sheet for an XA.
#1963 ford falcon paint colors series
Through the years of the X-series Falcons and Fairmonts, Ford relied on a series of alphanumeric codes to differentiate the colours that they painted their cars. By its very nature, the subject of paint is huge and as such, we want to touch on some of the more unusual aspects of paint schemes, and try and provide a background to how some of the codes and paint coding works.
This will be a page dealing with the paint schemes applied to some of the classic X-series Australian Fords.
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