Silver Star

[ATO]

There's a guy on one of the Tokai FB pages asking for confirmation of this Silver Star model
It looks to be a standard SS36 or SS42
However the thing that interested me was the body stamp - it's stamped as 6=17 MR Z which as I understand it should be Metallic Red, however this one is a sunburst - above the factory stamp is a hand written 6-16 YS, which I presume means yellow sunburst? which would be correct?
Did this happen a lot? and why has it gone from 6=17 to 6=16 once the colour stamp was corrected?

 

[Sigmania]

Yeah that’s weird. YS is definitely yellow sunburst which is the correct color.

 

[Sigmania]

Similar magic maker treatment on this 1982 ST120.

http://www.tokaiforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=26153

 

[ATO]

Just seems strange that whatever the reason for the wrong colour code, the 6=17 stamp moved to 6=16
I'd love to know why. Someone else on the thread states the **=** stamp is month=batch
This would make sense if this body found it's way into the wrong batch 17, got the wrong stamp and then got moved into the correct batch 16

 

[Sigmania]

Nobody knows the answer to that as far as I can tell. Guys on here used to say it referred to month/day but that was proven wrong since numbers can go over 31.

It’s safe to say it’s a matching code, beyond that we are guessing in my opinion.

Maybe the new owners will shed some light on this decades old mystery? 8)

 

[Sigmania]

Looks like he may have a mouse problem too? :lol:

 

[ATO]

Yes, hadn't noticed that