The Corporate Colours 1

We will restrict our examination of corporate colours to the GT model, for the simple reasons that the GT Falcons are the only models for which extensive figures and research has been released by Ford Australia, and the GT is now a highly collectable car with much interest shown in the cars providing a wide and historic photo database. As ever, we are highly indebted to the Falcon GT Club of Australia, their members, site webmaster and historian.

XR GT

The XR GT is most famously known for introducing the GT Gold paint colour, and most folk would be mistaken for believing that all XR GT’s were painted this colour. Of the 684 manufactured, 671 were gold, and 13 were not. These 13 cars were split between six further different colours, four of which were standard option colours for the XR model Falcon, and two of which were special ‘corporate’ colours.

F131 - Avis White






n this context, F131 is the Ford fleet representation. The colour scheme was also known as Y131, and it is the ‘Y’ code that most commonly appears on the compliance plate in the paint section as an alternative to the single digit alphanumeric code. The Dulux formula for Avis White is 8986. There only seems to be one ‘Avis’ colour listed in the Ford charts, and it is this white. This car was built for a Ford executive.