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[REDA9X]

LH SLR5000

 

 

LX SLR5000 at the top (with optional wheels), LH SLR5000 at the bottom with the standard wheels

 

 

A9X

 

 

An L34 looks the same as  the LH SLR500 but with flares, the same wheels as the A9X and round headlights

[REDA9X]

Only the rears, and some A9X's had them anyway

Pretty concise i think. Weren't the L34 flares narrower than the A9X?
 

And the L34 doesn't have the black sills the LH SLR5000 has.

[Kirk]

Red did the L34's have the front brake ducts as well?

Edited by Kirk, 04 October 2013 - 12:15 AM.

[REDA9X]

nope. only the A9X

Red did the L34's have the front brake ducts as well?

[Kirk]

Does the L34 have L31 or L34 for the engine code on the tag?

 

That things looks to good to be driven

Edited by Kirk, 04 October 2013 - 12:58 AM.

[dattoman]

L34 is the engine designation

Thats what the tags read

And no bonnet scoop

[hanra]

And to throw a further spanner in the works, LH Tuxedo Black SL/R 5000s don't have black outs at all. However I think LX Tuxedo Black SL/R 5000s have sliver stenciling for the decals?

LH SL/R 5000



LX SL/R 5000

Edited by hanra, 04 October 2013 - 07:04 AM.

[REDA9X]

I forgot to mention the red LX SLR5000 that I pictured has optional painted bumpers too. The original owner took up the kidney dish wheels and bumper option when he bought the car new. Normally they were chrome and the SS had the painted bumpers.

[Dr Terry]

I think we should add some more photos to REDA9X's post & make it a permanent LH/LX SL/R-SS identification guide. With so many of these cars now molested it is difficult for the average guy to know what's real & what's not real, especially flares & scoops on the wrong cars.

One question for RED, you mention 'optional' painted bars on the LX. This was just a dealer thing wasn't it ? I don't know of any factory PO number for those. Is there? I know the alloys have a PO number.

Dr Terry

[A9X]

. The LX SL/R 5000 had a blacked out rear bobtail with SL/R 5000 in big lettering right across the rear and the A9X sedans had the same lettering as the LX except that it was in silver.

 

That is not totally correct either.

The rear lettering was dependent on the body colour.

 

Jatz you couold do a lot worse than buy a copy of Torana Tough. Do a search here for purchase details.

[REDA9X]

Terry, the option was if you ordered the wheels you got the bumpers as well, I'm not sure what the reasoning was behind it.

 

The red car I pictured was bought by a guy in Gundagai new, his brother bought one as well in yellow. I wish I'd bought that car, it had 10000km on the clock. I saw the yellow one a few years later, the brother still had it.

They were pre ordered, not just bought off the dealership. I think I have the details from the logbook at home somewhere.  Since the SS had painted bumpers, one would assume they just fitted the SS bumpers at the factory.

 

As Welby says, not all A9X sedans had silver, but it wasn't dependant on colour either as there are a few cars in the same colour around but with black stenciling.

 

Many cars have been personalised over the years, you get that, but don't assume because it has an SLR5000 decal it must be an SLR5000. The green car wit the injected motor in the first post is a classic example. No SLR 5000 had that chrome trim around the windows.

[hanra]

The green car wit the injected motor in the first post is a classic example. No SLR 5000 had that chrome trim around the windows.

 

Unless it was an LH SL/R 5000, and had the stainless trim running inside the window frame.

[REDA9X]

Thats why I said 'that chrome" in the picture of the green car

you can see the chrome Hanra is talking about on te red LH SLR5000 parked in the driveway

[Kirk]

I always thought identifying a car was done through the tags not the paint scheme

[SP5000]

Terry, the option was if you ordered the wheels you got the bumpers as well, I'm not sure what the reasoning was behind it.

 

The red car I pictured was bought by a guy in Gundagai new, his brother bought one as well in yellow. I wish I'd bought that car, it had 10000km on the clock. I saw the yellow one a few years later, the brother still had it.

They were pre ordered, not just bought off the dealership. I think I have the details from the logbook at home somewhere.  Since the SS had painted bumpers, one would assume they just fitted the SS bumpers at the factory.

 

As Welby says, not all A9X sedans had silver, but it wasn't dependant on colour either as there are a few cars in the same colour around but with black stenciling.

 

Many cars have been personalised over the years, you get that, but don't assume because it has an SLR5000 decal it must be an SLR5000. The green car wit the injected motor in the first post is a classic example. No SLR 5000 had that chrome trim around the windows.

Around the mid 80's when I had an LX SLR5000, I saw what I am sure was an original Papaya 4 door A9X a couple of times around the Sutherland Shire, the owner had redone the stencil on the rear spoiler to read A9X5000, it was done in black from memory