Numbers for Ken

[JOX515]

G'day Ken,

Not sure whether you have these numbers or not.  They are from a mates ute here in Ballarat.

[collecta]

That's rare, interior says its RAAF or ROYAL Mail?
Scott

[Stewy]

Using Holdens Black Book I get paint # 5269 as Deep Bronze Green.
Trim 770 is Cordon Brown
S10 is the code for Army Canteen.

Ex Army I reckon.  :)

Cheers Stewy   8)

[mcl1959]

Thanks for that, good numbers.
I like special vehicles like this one a lot.

Ken

[JOX515]

Yeah, it was an ex army ute  :)

[customFC]

Interesting ute.
Any pics of the whole car?
Regards
Alex

[JOX515]

G'day Alex,

The ute looks like this now......

[graham_fuller]

Nice ute.
Cheers
Graham

[customFC]

Thanks Ken.
Regards
Alex

[mcl1959]

A few interesting things about this Utes' numbers
First, it is the highest ute body number that I have on record for Melbourne production.
Second, the chassis number is only 142 away from the army sedan in the Bandiana museum in Wodonga.
This would mean they were possibly made on the same day.

Conclusions - the army ordered and received a batch of vehicles from the Melbourne plant at the very end of the FC production. Possibly because they were cheaper at this time rather than buying the new FB model.

There are a few other vehicles in between these two, so the production run was not 142 vehicles, rather more likely was that a batch of Utes went down the line followed by a batch of sedans soon after.

Ken

[MikeT]

Nice ute.
Cheers
Graham

Ute looks great.