robert campbell
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Janice came through with some pics of her "Gold Nugget Special"! The script seems to be in the traditional location for a GT/CS. Her car is identified as a "Gold Nugget Special" just as our car is. It is the same paint code as ours, but Paul's orginal registry denotes that they should be "anniversary gold" vice "sunlit gold." My car has the same color on the body and the tail light panel. A darker, richer, version of sunlit gold. Our car has Marchals, and hers has Lucas lights.
Now we have two cars that are within two days of build date that fit the comment by Lee Gray that cars were staged prior to the build of the of GT/CS's (page 29). Also they support the timeline in Paul's book on page 30. "February 17th through 20th" "Heavy GT/CS production to meet dealer's orders", "Special order "Nugget Gold" specials produced for Southern Oregon" and later connected to DSO 74 Seattle.
I believe that these two cars are "Gold Nugget Specials" a combination of the common "Gold Nugget" and the "GT/CS" option to jump start further sales of the GT/CS in the Northwest. Lee Gray mentioned that this happened. Here are two examples. I will post the Marti report for Janices's car tomorrow on the Marti report thread. It says the same thing as ours. "Gold Nugget Special"
Rob
Now we have two cars that are within two days of build date that fit the comment by Lee Gray that cars were staged prior to the build of the of GT/CS's (page 29). Also they support the timeline in Paul's book on page 30. "February 17th through 20th" "Heavy GT/CS production to meet dealer's orders", "Special order "Nugget Gold" specials produced for Southern Oregon" and later connected to DSO 74 Seattle.
I believe that these two cars are "Gold Nugget Specials" a combination of the common "Gold Nugget" and the "GT/CS" option to jump start further sales of the GT/CS in the Northwest. Lee Gray mentioned that this happened. Here are two examples. I will post the Marti report for Janices's car tomorrow on the Marti report thread. It says the same thing as ours. "Gold Nugget Special"
Rob