who bought this car.....

I dont usually like the colored grill but the TB3 blue looks good.

Did the '72 "colored grill" last the entire year? I have a 5/72 EV2 'Cuda should the grill be orange? It does have G36 & V6W but no V21.

I just got this blue grille with a dark argent where the orange is on most.I have found no signs of a repaint?

second pic

My car was built 12/71 is FE5 and has the G36 and V21(seen above in this thread) and from what I've seen not all cars in the listed colors seem to have had the color keyed grille. It was theorized by one member that just as in the 71 Cuda production the supply may have had an effect on the what they actually assembled the cars with. I think that the option was seen in early built cars.

Checking over the option sheet the G36 and grille must be a seperate deal. I've personally only seen it on V21 cars and on one B5 blue car (online) that was repainted, not sure if it was added. I was basing my assumption that the G36 and color keyed grille were tied together some how, from what I had seen. I've only seen the painted grille on cars with painted mirrors and V21. (The orange car with the Hemi and shaker is/was also a V21 car).

The Cyber Cuda does not currently have a color keyed grille. Wonder what it's build date was, and if it ever had one?

I'd guess the built date and plant would coincide on cars with the painted grilles. I am going to start contacting the members I know of with these cars for build sheet and data tag info





Moparclown Thanks, if you can post extreme close ups of the paint , texture and termination point tape lines that would a huge help. So not texture found on the painted portion of the grille to indicate it had Argent sanded off?

6bblgt if you could do the same that would be great.


I imagine a few of these cars with this option would have had broken grilles replaced with Argetn units over the years and who could tell and how?

I spoke with a buddy and am planning to go look thru a factory manual tonight that MAY have some data on this option

Ok home sick, so I thought I'd update to this post again.

I've corresponded with some more owners of 72 Cuda's both V21 and G36

One owner of an EV2 Cuda with the G36 option (non V21) provided pics of his grille while it was still in original paint. So more proof that the loop was argent, not black as I had previously presumed from the appearance of the black and white press release photo's this car's scheduled production date July 10 of 1972.

My cars build date is actually 12/71 (I mistyped it in the original post and can't change it) and is a G36/V21 car. I know my car history since the prior owner was family. He informed me that the prior owner said that the grille was correct and should be body color (it had a color change at that time) I actually bought/delivered/refinished and helped install an argent grille back in the day. Reveiwing broadcast sheets I see something but will need a few more G36 cars sheets to compare.

Blaine Kelly's Cyber Cuda had body color mirror's but not a painted grille http://kelleyhome.homestead.com/cybercuda.html

The car is currently owned by Bob Malcom Dodge in Ohio http://www.bobmalcom.com
Bob's wife Sharron Malcom was nice enough to fax me a copy of the broadcast sheet. I can see that it is coded for V21 but G35 O/S Lh remote chrome mirror

The ebay car did get sold, and I subsequently lost track of it.
If anyone knows of it, I'd like to get it touch with it's current owner.

The broadcast showed V21 but the data tag did not?? It also showed G36 on the tag/sheet, and had a color keyed grille

Another 72 apparent G36 car from ebay (no data tag option codes provided)

Kick starting a classic thread, these photo's show the color of the painted area around the grille sections that was normally orange on argent grilles.

An old ad, it can be found in the Oct 1971 Hot Rod (oh and FYI my broadcast sheets turned up , owner #2's son came through)

So as far as I can tell, the G36 option for color keyed mirrors plus the BS Cuda designation allowed for the colored keyed grill in certain colors. Orange Blue Red and Yellow being the most common. I have a late built 72 07/10/72 that is fender tagged G36 and has the color keyed mirrors and grille (pictured above in another post.) Have not pulled the broadcast sheet, but it is not a V21 car, nor does it have stripes or vinyl top.

Exactly... and thanks John, it took me a few years but I'm learning. (check the date on the first post in this thread)

As the chart on page one details a Cuda (BS VIN) with G36, in any of the 6 specified colors should have come std with the color keyed grille.

I want to record as many as I can to see if they fall off at a certain date possibly due to a supply issue (as they say 71's did when a delivery truck rolled over)

I also actually found a relocated California 72 TB3 V21 here, it has aftermarket mirrors and argent grille but upon inspection appears to have had a minor front end collision (If I recall corrctly it had a factory replacement P/N stamped hood, I know the hood latch support was not painted) it's a G36 car built 8-71 so I'd say it had the color keyed grille.

I have a 1972 Cuda with a July 14 build date and V21, GF7 paint. When I got the car, it still was largely in original paint. The grille as entirely green, no argent border. It has one chrome remote mirror, side stripes, black vinyl top.

Sunroof I was unaware you had two 1972 V21's. I'd love to document this car and any original condition photo's you have of it. Here is a pic, it's a still from a preproduction video it was apparently a factory deal made from photoshoot still's and voiced over, that I've just aquired