[9C1Beater]

That blue and white color scheme was used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (and still is). Bruce Hamilton's RCMP 9C1 Nova has the same color scheme, and he has the buildsheet for the car which shows that it was a specially mixed shade of blue that was used only on the RCMP cars. Bruce sent to GM of Canada for info on his Nova and learned that 132 9C1s were delivered to Canada in 1977. When fleet cars with special colors were built, the factory would spray a large number of them sequentially, so there would've been a whole string of them going down the assembly line at the same time...I'm sure that would've been quite a sight. All of the RCMP 9C1 Novas were ordered by the main office in Ottawa, ON, but could have been built at any of the 3 plants that produced Novas at the time (Tarrytown, NY; Willow Run (Ypsilanti), MI; or Van Nuys, CA). Bruce's 9C1 was built in Van Nuys and then rail shipped to Edmonton, AB before being truck shipped to tiny Grimshaw, AB.