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Hi all, l have a one tone FC black sedan ,l look up to find more info about it and the trim is some how is not right for the paint on the car here are the detail

       MODEL   FC225-27206-S
       TRIM       4-627
       PAINT     253-6258
       CHASSIE FC-47654-S
        ENG        L580248


 THIS CAR REGO IS BVO -700 THE CAR WAS REGO ON 6/59 BUT BY THE ENG NUMBER IT IS JULY 59,IT DOES NOT HAVE THE EXTRA FINN STRIP ON THE REAR PANEL .I HAVE CHECK THE NUMBERS TWICE TO MAKE SURE, THANK YOU CHEERS FROM ALFIOM :) PS IT DOES HAVE A SMALL SRIPE BETWEEN THE ROOF AND REAR PANEL

Hi love god.

The car should be painted black all over on the outside.

The interior trim should be Fall Red & Black.

Does your car not look like that ?

Dr Terry.

Hi Dr Terry , the car is all black out side but in side the door jams and A and B pillers are red but what make me puzzle is what is 4 could it be the door jam colour, and beening a 59 model it does not have the extra fin strip on the rear panels.The car has been unrego sinces 1986 and it had the rego plates BVU-700 which would be around when it was new,0n the 6th month ,but the engine number saids 7th of 1959  ??? can you DR Terry help me about this. rgards AlfioM ps and also can you tell me was black one tone FC are a rear colour and l herad black cars in the 50s and earliy 60s were goverment vehicals :)

The "Date by Engine Number" list is only approximate.  It could be the original engine number.  Remember that engines were only manufactured in Melbourne and crated all over the country, so there's a bit of variation in the pattern.

The red in the door-jambs is typical of one-colour specials, too.  My dad's all-white FC has this; red/black door trims, and red in the door-jambs and on the B-pillar inner.  It's actually called "Duotone", and was introduced with the FJ Specials.  Geoff_K has some documentation that stipulates what secondary colour goes with each single-tone exterior.  Dr Terry might, too.

By the body number, it looks like the car should have a piece of trim on the base of the "C" pillar, not the fin extensions of the late '59 style.

Black Specials aren't especially rare, and most fleet vehicles (black or otherwise) were Standards.

Hope that's some help.

cheers
RET

Hi Ret,  thank you for the info that great  :) there are so many types of story of each year and models of FE/FC,l notices when l taken the rear seat out behind the seat were the trim meets around the back there were hood line matrials ??? thank you cheers from Alfio

Alfio, the number "4" is the GMH code for the paint scheme.  Doesn't seem to make much sense for a one colour car but when you talk about 2 tone cars it is much easier in a factory environment to quote a single number which describes not only both the colours of the car but also which one was on the top and which one was on the bottom.
For example Adobe Beige over Seminole Brown would be simply described as "263"
The other reason for the code is when a customer comes in to buy paint or trim parts and quotes the ID plate details, it acts as a double check so that the parts department can verify the customer has written the right numbers down.  
Black was still a popular colour in the 50's.  A very high percentage of cars in the 30's and 40's were black and people still saw it as a limousine or high class colour even though it was hot in summer.  By the time the FB was made Black was starting to fade away as a popular colour and by the time of the EH, black was quite a rare colour.
Your car is a 1959 model - the middle model. This ran from late 1958 through to the middle of 1959.

Ken

Hi Ken , Thank you for your info it great to have club members like Ret, Dr Terry and your self to help us other club members for more info about our FE/FC take care  :) l will post pic of the car and the id plate ,cheers from AlfioM