Quote: Originally Posted by jetsonrac [View Post] the decals were done at the holden dealership. the car was sold as a holden factory demo after its test track period. old couple bought it.they traded it a couple of years later for a vn berlina. then he bought it. LW5 MX7. What colour was it? Looks like ice blue in a couple of shots. U should put a pic of ur old red Calais up! Now that was og Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

might have to do that. na it wasnt ice blue it was the other green

Quote: Originally Posted by jetsonrac [View Post] Ive finally got my hands on some of the CUP727 photos of the car that my cousin owned a while back.Il post them up soon. VLTWHITE 1 as u can see the car sat in his shed for a while.cause he didnt drive it. I SO regret not buying it off him.I wonder where it is now Brilliant. Thanks for digging those out. It'd certainly be one of the earliest LW5 plated cars out there, and one of the few with the small Holden badge on the bootlid.

Quote: Originally Posted by INFLYT [View Post] A8q? Yes A8Q not A8R This was quoted earlier in this very thread... 'Nothing serious there. The A8R code didn't come into existence until some time after August 1986 (I have the exact date here somewhere) so all of the very early Exec turbo's are plated A8Q. See the red car above too'

Such a shame he doesn't have photo's of it before it was painted as it's only two bodies after my gold car and would have been perfect proof of what badge was fitted... 214929-A...AVL013958A...Red one I'm wrecking 214938-A...AVL014027A...My gold car 214940-A...AVL014035A...Your mates All 3 of them would have rolled off the line on the same day !! 214808-A...AVL013927A is the earliest Adelaide production car I have listed. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by VLTWhite1 [View Post] Such a shame he doesn't have photo's of it before it was painted as it's only two bodies after my gold car and would have been perfect proof of what badge was fitted... 214929-A...AVL013958A...Red one I'm wrecking 214938-A...AVL014027A...My gold car 214940-A...AVL014035A...Your mates All 3 of them would have rolled off the line on the same day !! 214808-A...AVL013927A is the earliest Adelaide production car I have listed. Yeah no pictures of his before hand. He bought it already resprayed Haha that's pretty cool. It would be great to locate 214939-A. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Probably means nothing but I used to own a calais with rego of CUP-434.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/genuine-h...item4aca2b748a (http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/genuine-holden-vl-calais-turbo-/321219425418?pt=AU_Cars&hash=item4aca2b748a) Jul 86 CT bit rough but not bad

Quote: Originally Posted by LUXJET [View Post] Probably means nothing but I used to own a calais with rego of CUP-434. Maybe not, but you never know. I'm not sure how plates were issued in Victoria back then. In SA, various rego offices had blocks of sequential plate numbers each. Being a manufacturer I'm not sure if Holden would have been trusted to have had their own blocks, or maybe they just had groups of test cars registered at the same office at the same time. Would have incorporated any car to have been driven on the road (test cars, press cars, loan fleet, company cars etc).

Quote: Originally Posted by MRHELE [View Post] http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/genuine-h...item4aca2b748a (http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/genuine-holden-vl-calais-turbo-/321219425418?pt=AU_Cars&hash=item4aca2b748a) Jul 86 CT bit rough but not bad Pretty good price considering factory leather and manual (may not be factory) Bit of rust in the usual spots but doesn't look hacked up which us good

Thought I'd bump this thread Just browsing through Australian Musclecar Sales and found this car...I remember seeing it pop up awhile back but don't recall seeing the body plate. Build date - July 86 Body number - 100475M http://australianmusclecarsales.com....odore-sl-turbo (http://australianmusclecarsales.com.au/muscle/185771-vl-commodore-sl-turbo) If it wasn't quite so expensive, would be sweet car to own....Good history Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by VL-Dan [View Post] Thought I'd bump this thread Just browsing through Australian Musclecar Sales and found this car...I remember seeing it pop up awhile back but don't recall seeing the body plate. Build date - July 86 Body number - 100475M http://australianmusclecarsales.com....odore-sl-turbo (http://australianmusclecarsales.com.au/muscle/185771-vl-commodore-sl-turbo) If it wasn't quite so expensive, would be sweet car to own....Good history OCD plates - that's kind humorous for a well kept car! Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

I reckon that one was the first turbo I came across with the small badge a while back, which made me look harder at my gold one. It was on Carsales for 35K when I first saw it 18 moths ago now.

Nice example. In one of the pictures, the Americas cup logo states "1987". Does that seem right Vltwhite 1 (Craig) on a July '86 car? Regards, David

Yep, if this is the one from ebay I was looking at, it was gold and she was from a farm alright, must of been full of red soil, because even after they detailed it, you could see the red dirt in all the grooves of the dash!

Quote: Originally Posted by calaist5 [View Post] Nice example. In one of the pictures, the Americas cup logo states "1987". Does that seem right Vltwhite 1 (Craig) on a July '86 car? Yep, Holden were sponsoring the defence of the America's Cup in Fremantle in January 1987 so pretty much everything Holden did in 1986 had the logo on it.