Corporate and fleet paint codes

[Topsy11]

Hi all just recently bought a te cortina wagon. Paint code ey113.
Or y113 rothmans blue. After speakspeaking to a ford tech for an hour he finally found the code. After some reading it says cars that were ordered in li
It'd numbers or special orders came up as fleet or corporate paint codes. Does anyone know more about it. I cant seam to find any ford painted the color mine is.

[Bossxr8]

Isn't Rothmans a tabacco company. Or was?

Most likely a car from their corporate fleet. Many corporate fleets had their own colours made up to match their company colours.

[Topsy11]

Rothman do make crap smokes. So a fleet car. Might have been a delivery wagon haha

[hayseed]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

Isn't Rothmans a tabacco company. Or was?

Most likely a car from their corporate fleet. Many corporate fleets had their own colours made up to match their company colours.

^^^^^^^^ what he said....

[GT450]

Exactly right just like Gallagher silver and i believe Brambles red falls into the corporate colours as well.
GT450

[ozpacman]

Yes mate EY113 comes up as Rothmans Blue Metallic. Dulux Ref No. 08641. Your wagon was probably a Rothmans sales rep's car. The wagons were very popular due to the carrying capacity and convenience of loading and unloading the cartons.

Ford used to do quite a few vehicles in fleet colours back in the 60s and 70s. For companies that had a large vehicle fleet it would have saved a significant amount of coin being able to purchase the vehicles already decked out in the corporate colour.

I think every now and then Ford would do a few extras and sell them via the dealership network.

I recall an XB Coupe that came to our Queensland country dealership and was bought by a local farmer. It was 'Budget Green', which I think was the Budget Rent a Car corporate colour at the time. It was certainly the only one I ever saw in that shade of green.

Russ.

[CyberWasp]

I want to know why we had so many colour options back then when they were all manually applied and now we have so few.

[stock1991]

I remember Ramset orange, which was the corporate colour for Ramset, back in the 90's in NSW. I'm not sure when they stopped doing it but I remember you could choose from over 200 OSO (off standard option) colours and have it painted at the factory, seem to remember it was roughly a 16 week wait depending when in the cycle you ordered it. No doubt it was an expensive option and probably not a priority for most people

[Raptor]

I know Rothmans was a cigarette company but this is really where I know the name from. Allan Moffats VL group A Commodore.

[Rallye Sport]

That'd be a handsome colour on a Cortina, what are the plans for it?
This is the Rothmans livery I best remember...

[4stanger]

Originally Posted by ozpacman

Ford used to do quite a few vehicles in fleet colours back in the 60s and 70s.

I can recall "Gilbarco Blue" on an XF Falcon, I had to paint back in the early 1990s.
So at least up till 1980s?

[hayseed]

Originally Posted by ozpacman

Ford used to do quite a few vehicles in fleet colours back in the 60s and 70s.

Russ.

I think they did it up until the late '80s.
I can remember heaps of Falcon utes & Vans getting around Sydney in that Putrid Green of the Sydney County Council..


You can currently get a Transit (If you're prepared to wait) in all sorts of Fleet Colours. EG; Post office Red, DHL yellow, TNT Orange. plus others.

[Smoke Pursuit]

You can order AMG mercs in any colour you want. Not a cheap option.

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by ozpacman

Yes mate EY113 comes up as Rothmans Blue Metallic. Dulux Ref No. 08641. Your wagon was probably a Rothmans sales rep's car. The wagons were very popular due to the carrying capacity and convenience of loading and unloading the cartons.

Ford used to do quite a few vehicles in fleet colours back in the 60s and 70s. For companies that had a large vehicle fleet it would have saved a significant amount of coin being able to purchase the vehicles already decked out in the corporate colour.

I think every now and then Ford would do a few extras and sell them via the dealership network.

I recall an XB Coupe that came to our Queensland country dealership and was bought by a local farmer. It was 'Budget Green', which I think was the Budget Rent a Car corporate colour at the time. It was certainly the only one I ever saw in that shade of green.

Russ.

I remember a fellow buying a bright pink ZL Fairlane which had been owned by one of the cosmetic companies. Horrible looking thing, but as he said he got it cheap because no one wanted it,and as he said, cant see anything other than the bonnet whilst driving,so what the hell,paint the bonnet matt black,problem solved

[71cop]

There were a few XA GT's in rothmans blue too, bloke up the road had a four door one back in the 90's.

[stig_3754]

Originally Posted by Smoke Pursuit

You can order AMG mercs in any colour you want. Not a cheap option.

Porsche offer the same on the Macan at least (not sure about other models). Also not a cheap option.

[JKL]

Originally Posted by 71cop

There were a few XA GT's in rothmans blue too, bloke up the road had a four door one back in the 90's.

I had my xagt sedan in Rothmans blue around 2006, originally it was from Melbourne, from memory 2 GT sedans and 1 GT coupe, were a few xbgt’s in that colour also, paint code y113 - mine unfortunately sold to guy in Emerald, hope he is still enjoying it!! From memory this colour in the XC range became a mainstream colour, can’t remember the colours name as rothmans name got dropped. Thanks Jason

[EBSXR6]

Originally Posted by Tassie f100

I remember a fellow buying a bright pink ZL Fairlane which had been owned by one of the cosmetic companies. Horrible looking thing, but as he said he got it cheap because no one wanted it,and as he said, cant see anything other than the bonnet whilst driving,so what the hell,paint the bonnet matt black,problem solved

Mary Kay Cosmetics. I have seen a few different makes and models in Mary Kay Pink, a Territory and also a VW Beetle.

[Dr Terry]

Originally Posted by EBSXR6

Mary Kay Cosmetics. I have seen a few different makes and models in Mary Kay Pink, a Territory and also a VW Beetle.

I used to see numerous Mary Kay Pink Lasers in Sydney's western suburbs during the 80s.

Both Holden & Ford had many 100s of fleet colours available to them, more so during the early years, because by the 1990s the fleets had realised how these 'weird' colours had such a serious effect on resale values.

Dr Terry

[Topsy11]

This is fascinating. Some.colors would increase value now. Others decrease

[danzvtil]

I remember in the 90s all the red Camry wagons belonging to Coca Cola, I think they were the standard Toyota red. In the 00s Cadbury reps had VZ wagons in purple, there still a few around in private hands, looks bogan as.
Nowadays, they wouldn’t bother, as a vinyl wrap will last as long as the lease and be more economical.

[EBSXR6]

[QUOTE=danzvtil;6221367
Nowadays, they wouldn’t bother, as a vinyl wrap will last as long as the lease and be more economical.[/QUOTE]

If a car is wrapped in a different colour to the original paint, it may make you more of a target with the police with automatic number recognition technology.

[stock1991]

Originally Posted by Topsy11

This is fascinating. Some.colors would increase value now. Others decrease

From what I saw of the colour options most were variations on common themes, like different whites and red's silvers etc with a few out there choices.