Bonnet/boot letters

Post by **Blacky** » Sun Aug 16, 2026 11:12 pm

Going to drop a set of bonnet/EK boot letters off to me old mate Richard Wallace at Billetworks tomorrow along with an FC grille badge - he is going to look into making them seeing as Rares can’t be bothered anymore…..
I have a question for someone who has a master parts cattledog handy - it’s common knowledge the E is different front to back - but what about the other letters? Digging through the ones I have the E was the only one that I could find 2 different part numbers on - can anyone confirm?
The part numbers are consecutive from the H to the N

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Errol62 · Post by **Errol62** » Sun Aug 16, 2026 11:41 pm

I reckon they are all different front/rear

FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

Harv · Post by **Harv** » Mon Aug 17, 2026 7:17 am

According to the Master Oldfarts Dogologue, all six letters of H O L D E N on the boot and bonnet have different parts numbers. Boot 7416673 - 7416678, bonnet 7412316 - 7412321.

Cheers,
Harv

Post by **Blacky** » Mon Aug 17, 2026 7:55 am

Thanks for confirming Harv, I will dig up a set of boot letters as well then

Dr Terry · Post by **Dr Terry** » Mon Aug 17, 2026 8:08 am

Yes Harv & Errol62 are correct, the boot & bonnet badges do differ.

I think the reason is because the boot badges have provision for body sealant so water doesn't get into the boot.

The EK bonnet badges came from the FB bonnet & they had no provision for sealant.

Had GMH thought ahead & made the FB badges designed for sealant they could've had 1 set of badges that they could use anywhere.

Dr Terry

Errol62 · Post by **Errol62** » Mon Aug 17, 2026 8:17 am

Very good Terry. You can usually tell the rear letters as they have rubber seals or remnants there of, around the pins.

FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

Dr Terry · Post by **Dr Terry** » Mon Aug 17, 2026 2:31 pm

Another thing too. I seem to remember that not all the pins are positioned the same for each set of letters. In other words they are not all interchangeable.

Dr Terry

Errol62 · Post by **Errol62** » Mon Aug 17, 2026 6:55 pm

Yes. I’ve observed some vary front to back as you say.

FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

Post by **Blacky** » Mon Aug 17, 2026 9:33 pm

Dr Terry wrote: Mon Aug 17, 2026 2:31 pm Another thing too. I seem to remember that not all the pins are positioned the same for each set of letters. In other words they are not all interchangeable.

Dr Terry

Definitely. I bought a set of NOS "bonnet letters" for the ute back in the day and there was at least one that had different pin configuration - I thought it was only the E but could quite possibly be more as it was 16 years ago.........

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