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[dattoman]

In the LH range the SL also had the chrome trims

Mine did

[hanra]

As above. SL. SL/R 3300, SL/R 4.2, SL/R 5000.

You could get about $400 for the set if in good complete condition.

Edited by hanra, 17 April 2017 - 09:22 PM.

[LHSL]

True LH doors won't have the side intrusion bars fitted. I have see a few LH SL/SLR doors with the correct stainless trims and bars. Best of both worlds!

[Statler]

True LH doors won't have the side intrusion bars fitted. I have see a few LH SL/SLR doors with the correct stainless trims and bars. Best of both worlds!

Only the very early '74 cars had no door intrusion bars. 

 

A wipe with some bog over the spot welds & i doubt anyone would know the difference. 

[LHSL]

Only the very early '74 cars had no door intrusion bars.
Are you sure Col? My father's LH is a 9/75 and the doors have no intrusion bars (well the original ones don't).

A wipe with some bog over the spot welds & i doubt anyone would know the difference.

Edited by LHSL, 18 April 2017 - 04:03 PM.

[Statler]

Only the very early '74 cars had no door intrusion bars.
Are you sure Col? My father's LH is a 9/75 and the doors have no intrusion bars (well the original ones don't).

A wipe with some bog over the spot welds & i doubt anyone would know the difference.

Am i sure? No.

I was always led to believe that ADR29 (side door impact) was implemented around 6-74. 

 

After a quick look around i can only find reference to it coming into affect 3-76. 

 

From what i can gather, it was up to each State as to when they complied, as long as it was pre 3-76.

 

I can't see GMH building cars to suit each State ( only putting ADR29 into say .... a Melbourne car but not in a Brisbane car to save a bob ) but they certainly had enough notice that ADR was coming into play.

 

Here is where i get confused: The ADR's are listed numerically on the body tag. 

ADR 29 is 3-76, but ADR27A (pollution gear) shows as 7-76? 

 

I wonder why it took 4 mths to nut out 27A when 29 was already in effect? 

I wonder if the tags on those 4mth cars have 27 & 90? 

[308mate]

My hatch is 10-76, no intrusion bars.... made victoria

[Bigfella237]

I was always led to believe that ADR29 (side door impact) was implemented around 6-74. 

 

After a quick look around i can only find reference to it coming into affect 3-76. 

 

According to the document itself, ADR29 didn't apply to vehicles manufactured before "1 Jan 1977" and even then, only on "other passenger cars"...

 

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[Statler]

The next 2 pages are dated 3-76

[Bigfella237]

I see what you're talking about, where it says "Amended March 1976", but I wouldn't have thought manufacturers would go to the extra expense of adding the brace until they absolutely had to? (Although there may have been a few weeks (or maybe a month) of overlap?)

 

But who knows? It's getting hard to find unmolested examples to verify such things these days!

 

[Statler]

If the document was amended in 3-76 then there had to be a working document prior to then.

I see reference to ADR 29 from 1968. 

 

I have a rear door from a '75 SLR which has the intrusion bar in it. I can't remember the build month but i think it was Sept. 

 

If i was a car manufacturer & customers were being severely injured (or worse) in minor side collisions, i would be changing my design even if only to avoid bad publicity. 

[Dr Terry]

My Sept 76 LX Hatch, which is a two-owner low km original, has no side intrusion bars in the doors.

 

Dr Terry

[Cook]

My 11/76 LX hatch does not have intrusion bars but can't confirm doors are original. Cheers Ron

[Statler]

It just seems so haphazard!