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[StephenSLR]

I have seen a couple of royal plum LX SLR's and they had the stripes in silver.

Wow.

The only Royal Plum SL/R I've ever seen is my own.

I have seen quite a few RPM Toranas and I hear that many RPM SL/R's and Toranas were painted in more fashionable colours in the 80's. One guy approached me once and said he had the same colour Torana and painted it red, I remember seeing a RPM hatchback that used to park under the bridge at McDonaldtown and the guy ended up painting it a dreadful green colour.

Yep, back then it was quite an unfashionable colour, I once went to a car dealer and asked how much I could get for my car and the first thing he said was, "Ohhh purple, it'll be hard to sell".

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[StephenSLR]

Here are some photos

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The black between the chrome window surround and silver pinstripe I painted myself, I had planned on removing the silver pinstripes but being so old they would peel off the paint.





I continued with that black strip all the way to the front, the bonnet was black when I bought it, you may notice two shades of black.





TORANA lettering on passenger side, I noticed holes in the bootlid under the rear spoiler passenger side so I assume it is the same TORANA lettering.



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Edited by StephenSLR, 28 November 2006 - 10:38 PM.

[Toranavista]

Some reference material to study. May help with the restoration.

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[REDA9X]

oops didn't realise they were already there DOH, just found them and thought i'd post them oh well....

[Toranavista]

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