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Torana hatch - vinyl roof?

Started by Toranamat69 , Jan 20 2006 04:50 PM

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#1 Toranamat69

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Posted 20 January 2006 - 04:50 PM

Does anyone have any pics of torana hatches with vinyl roof?

I didn't know they made any but I just read something about it in another thread.

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Posted 20 January 2006 - 05:00 PM

I've never seen one or any evidence of one. I have a damn lot of photos and no Hatches have vinyl roofs so i'm guessing they were all removed neatly back in the 80's or something...

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Posted 20 January 2006 - 06:32 PM

There was a former member that had one. I thought i had a pic but have misplaced it. Anyway in trying to find the info i have found a reference that he is trying to find the new forums on a commodore site. I have found an old email from the ols website so will try ot contact him.

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Posted 20 January 2006 - 06:36 PM

On a Commodore site!? Maybe he shouldn't be welcome here at all!

No offence intended, lol

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Posted 20 January 2006 - 06:51 PM

On a Commodore site!? Maybe he shouldn't be welcome here at all!

No offence intended, lol

Yep just had to register to get is email address :huh:

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Posted 20 January 2006 - 09:43 PM

it was common in the late 70's to fit a vinyl roof after hail damage.

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Posted 20 January 2006 - 10:10 PM

I can't imagine a vynil roof on a hatch looking even slightly good though...

I don't even know exactly what it would look like. I guess pretty similar to the sedan ones, I expect those must have been factory.

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Posted 20 January 2006 - 11:22 PM

I have a mate that had factory black vinyl roof on an LJ GTR, silver mink with black vinyl. (see my story "whats in the shed") So mmmmmmmmmmaybe?
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Posted 21 January 2006 - 02:22 PM

Hey guys thnx for rembering me iam the guy on the commy site the only reason why i joined was i was having some trouble with the vt and i couldnt ask u guys cause i couldnt find ya's but yeah my hatch doesnt have the vinyl roof neither does the other ones that i have seen around here but it would be interesting to see but i dont think it would suite it but if u find a pic u should post it up

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#10 Toranavista

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Posted 21 January 2006 - 05:03 PM

Hey Kev, Glad to see your back on board

Will keep lookinng for that elusive pic. The harder the challenge the bigger the reward

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Posted 21 January 2006 - 05:37 PM

Yeah but if u want i have some new and up to date pics of the old girl even a film of it idling and it sounds great

and looks it

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#12 Toranavista

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Posted 21 January 2006 - 06:32 PM

Some pics of the old girl would be great! If you can't host them i can put them in the members project section. Unfortunately carnt host video though. Just email me if you need me to.

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Posted 25 January 2006 - 12:55 PM

My hatch has a vinyl roof....it was brown but I sprayed it black with vht spray to match the interior. didn't turn out too bad!

I think my hatch started life as an SL so who knows

will try and post some good quality pics up soon.

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Posted 25 January 2006 - 01:06 PM

Wow! i never thought they existed! Must be fantastic for the Pillars! They Rust enough as they are! haha Cant wait to see pics!

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#15 _draglc_

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Posted 25 January 2006 - 01:08 PM

id never seen an xu1 with a vinyl roof until i saw that orange one with a black roof!
guess its possible..

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Posted 25 January 2006 - 07:20 PM

The LX Production Option Chart doesn't differentiate between sedan or hatchback but does offer two exterior soft trim roof covering options.
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Posted 25 January 2006 - 08:56 PM

Although the torana's arent as popular with the vinyl roofs, like the monaros, I have seen a few GTR's, the odd XU1, an L34 and a few SL/R 5000's with vinyl roofs.

Havent seen a hatchback or an A9X with a vinyl roof, an LX hatchback Id believe would of been optional, A9X I dunno but anytings possible.

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Posted 25 January 2006 - 09:51 PM

I've seen a UC with one, IF and A9X had one, it would have been done by the dealer. I've seen an L34 with one, yuck!!! Orange with black roof

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#19 _Jaime_

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Posted 27 January 2006 - 07:40 PM

I've seen a Satin Mist (I think that's the silver) LH Torana SL with a white roof. It was a metal roof too...

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Posted 27 January 2006 - 07:59 PM

Never heard of that being a factory option. Did it have some sort of divider between the two colours? trim, insignia, anything like that?

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Posted 06 June 2006 - 02:35 AM

If anybodys still interested i seen a local hatch years ago that was purple/mid brown/burgandy? color and had a V pattern in Chamois starting with the point about 1/3 on roof with full cover by about half way extending down the C pillar.
Looked kinda cool in an old mans statsman kinda way. Was SL from memory ( talken 8-10 years here). One of those cars you get the feeling they had it from new. Sadly ive lost sight of it these days. I will ask aruond and see if it is still on the road.
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 07:13 PM

Actually to be honest i think it was red, that orange red that i love but still dont know the name of.............

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Posted 08 June 2006 - 07:12 PM

Here are 2 of the 3 the photos I have of the car. Third photo is just a blurred dash pic and if you can imagine a woodgrain SL dash with clock and 160 K speedo you'll have an idea of what it looked like. I've scanned them again and they are still bad - even from the negative. I think the worst part was that it was the end of a roll and I was just using up the film. Pretty much new rust free when I traded it in 83.

Wheels were 13" with plastic trims - the bad photo almost makes the look nearly OK.
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Fitting new standard height peddars shocks and springs at the time - was a mistake as it raised the car to 4WDheight.
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Posted 12 June 2006 - 01:10 AM

So there was no other pics of this car?

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#25 _EXLXSL_

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Posted 12 June 2006 - 04:05 PM

Nope - zero. I've been through the box of photos a couple of times now and that's it.

I do have one of my old Kingswood. And by one I mean 1. Now that was some car - 3 speed on the column, 202 and handled like a whale. Lovely colour too - sort of a pale green white a white(ish) top.

Didn't take a lot on my early cars even though I had an SLR camera and all that. Do have a few of the motorbikes I've had over the years. But even with them I think I only have a few of the first 2 or so. Later on I got a bit more snap happy.