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#1 MONZA1

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 06:59 PM

Does anyone have photos of a car in the colour - 'Barney's Shirt'. I have no idea what it looks like, & would love to see it.

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 07:17 PM

I would love to help but have no idea.

Is it a Torana colour?

Barney doesn't wear a shirt so its nothing to do with the dinosaur.

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Good luck with your search.

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 07:22 PM

I thought it was Barneys tie? :dontknow:

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 07:23 PM

Amazing they get away with having him naked on TV like that. And infront of little kids!!

Fair enough Humphry B Bear never wore pants, but atleast he had a shirt and hat. And a tie. And hey you cant blame him, i hate wearing pants to.

Perhaps its the green part on Barney?? Looks similar to March 17??

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Edited by Bomber Watson, 07 February 2012 - 07:24 PM.


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Posted 07 February 2012 - 07:24 PM

Barneys Shirt is from a famous Story from the GMH Styling department, when the LJ Range was going to start, Barney the styling guy had a shirt on one day at work, at the styling department guys liked the shirt so much they named the new colour after barneys shirt- true story

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 08:07 PM

Barneys Shirt is from a famous Story from the GMH Styling department, when the LJ Range was going to start, Barney the styling guy had a shirt on one day at work, at the styling department guys liked the shirt so much they named the new colour after barneys shirt- true story


Story I heard was similar to that.
It goes something like, Barney wore this bright Purple shirt to work and they liked the colour so much that they colour matched it and named the colour 'Barneys' Shirt'

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 08:33 PM

Hi

The following is a quote from the OldHolden site - there may be some truth in it. I am guessing that it is capitals for a reason?

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"BARNEYS SHIRT IS NOT A MYTH THE COLOUR DOES EXIST THERE ARE TWO CARS THAT SURVIVE ONE IS A LJ XU1 AND THE OTHR A HQ GTS 350 COUPE THAT DID THE SHOW CIRCUIT IN 1972 IT IS AN ORIGINAL CAR BUILT BY THE STYLING DEPARTMENT AT GMH AND LATER REGISTERED IN MAY 1973. THE 2 CARS WERE BUILT AT THE SAME TIME JANUARY 72. THE COLOUR CAN BE BEST DESCRIBED AS A MIX OF PINK/ LILAC. BOTH CARS HAVE GMH EXPERIMENTAL PAINT CODES THAT ARE NOT LISTED IN ANY PAINT BOOKS THE ORIGINAL COLOUR WAS FOUND UNDER LAYERS OF OLD PAINT AND COLOUR MATCHED. BOTH CARS WILL UNDERGO A FULL RESTO"

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 08:51 PM

The colour is Pink/Lillac Colour a combo burger of the two colours together (Barneys Shirt)

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 09:09 PM

Saw a hq at collie with strange colour like that I might have pic somewhere cause I really liked the colour I'll look

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 10:05 PM

atorana by now you should have some PMs re your pic. If not Sagman is asleep.
Yes Bazza has the story correct. There is a colour chip in Torana Tough and a story about the LJ which was a Styling car. There is a pic of the HQ GTS 350 in my Monaro book but only the centre section. Sagman and others would like to find a pic of the GTS and LJ XU-1 painted in "Barney's Shirt" at a Motor Show or just anywhere .
Looking forward to visiting Busselton in Sept.

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 10:24 PM

me to Norm

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 04:14 AM

Morning fellas , well was asleep ...... mmm Barney's Shirt eh ! Well the colour does exist and yes it was named after one of the styling guys . it is definately a colour that looks a shade of pink in some light , magenta in others and even to a lilac in the shade., it is a real chameleon but it has no pearls , metallics or the like in it , it is a straight colour !

The paint code is 568-1155-113-1A and no it does not appear in any paint books , commercial or gmh internal colour show books.

I f you go to the smp register there is a pic that has been posted showing brock , tate and 28c , if you look between them you will see a partial roof of a car.

That colour is Barney's Shirt , not smp as first thought . oh by the way that paint code has featured in discussion on the forum before.

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 10:18 AM

Attached File  Copy of P.B&Ian Tate.jpg   19.39K   22 downloads

If you look between Brocky and Ian Tate u can see the roof of a LJ Torana and the Colour is Barneys Shirt, that is the colour

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 11:52 AM

Hmmm, and the only other pic of a Torana behind the pits at Bathurst so far is Joe's orange V8.....the plot thickens.......

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 12:00 PM

There one of a Pink Coloured LJ parked behind Joe's Lone o Ranger LJ Torana when its parked inside Bathurst Motors, hard to tell if the Pink Car is SMP or Barneys Shirt, so the plot does thicken Grant

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 12:08 PM

The pic im talking about is from the 1973 Bathurst weekend, when Joe's orange car was there, some of the HDT Boys need to remember and drop the selective memory problems they get :stirpot:

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 05:40 PM

hmmmm car sounds familiar.

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 06:33 PM

I was at the motor show in 1972,i sat in that lilac hq monaro,i remember it very well,was a very unique show car,a one off..

Cheers John.

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Posted 20 February 2012 - 08:19 PM

Further to the reply in the book launch topic , perhaps it's more appropriate to post here !

Any forum members out there who have seen odd paint codes or in fact have them on their own cars?

Laz

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Posted 21 February 2012 - 11:24 AM



^^ Barneys shirt colout plate, Leo signing for Laz :)



^Al, Laz n George with "Barney" at the Torana Tough book launch

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Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:31 PM

This is a very interesting story,and anyone would be happy to own the one and only painted Barneys shirt car,but honestly i can see why the colour was never used,shame that other gay colour was used instead aswell.Was barney a tranny or a closet skirt wearer? :stirpot:

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Posted 21 February 2012 - 06:37 PM

Barney was a flashy wearer of shirts by the sound of things, and the unliked colours of SMP are now liked and wanted and sourt after these days, they were gay colours = bright and happy for back in that time frame lol

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 05:43 PM

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Here is Barneys Shirt LJ XU-1, The Styling V8 Car at Holden's Engineering Roof Top turn table in 1972, i have had this photo from late 1980's, it was called the V8 Styling Car as Leo put the spoiler kit on it that could of been on the V8 LJ production cars, but engineering knocked the spoiler kit back, cause there was only 200 cars been made so the cost factor knocked it back.



Here is a colour pic of the Styling V8 Car in colour

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Edited by xu2308, 22 February 2012 - 05:45 PM.


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Posted 13 July 2022 - 10:25 PM

Hi

The following is a quote from the OldHolden site - there may be some truth in it. I am guessing that it is capitals for a reason?

Cheers

Bazza

"BARNEYS SHIRT IS NOT A MYTH THE COLOUR DOES EXIST THERE ARE TWO CARS THAT SURVIVE ONE IS A LJ XU1 AND THE OTHR A HQ GTS 350 COUPE THAT DID THE SHOW CIRCUIT IN 1972 IT IS AN ORIGINAL CAR BUILT BY THE STYLING DEPARTMENT AT GMH AND LATER REGISTERED IN MAY 1973. THE 2 CARS WERE BUILT AT THE SAME TIME JANUARY 72. THE COLOUR CAN BE BEST DESCRIBED AS A MIX OF PINK/ LILAC. BOTH CARS HAVE GMH EXPERIMENTAL PAINT CODES THAT ARE NOT LISTED IN ANY PAINT BOOKS THE ORIGINAL COLOUR WAS FOUND UNDER LAYERS OF OLD PAINT AND COLOUR MATCHED. BOTH CARS WILL UNDERGO A FULL RESTO"



How is the Resto going on the HQ ?




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