I did a google image search on 72 Challengers to see exactly how the back of these cars are supposed to look and cannot come to a conclusion because there are so many different "looks" to them. All black, silver, argent... Who knows what's correct.

I'm building an original MPC model kit of a 72 Challenger Rallye. I have already painted it Hemi Orange and I would like to get the taillights and panel "right."

Thanks for any help.

On the 72-74 Challengers, I don't think there is anything conclusive. As a rule, the Rallye cars were black with argent coves, and the non-rallye cars were argent with black coves. As usual from Mopar, anything was possible...

I've done a lot of research on this since painting our own '72 Challenger and this is the best I've come up with. Feel free to correct anything wrong. And of course different factories could have done different things...yada yada.

'72 is the only year of the "ugly" E-bodies that the tail panel could have been painted two different ways. For '73-'74 the tail panel was painted only one way.

In '72 the Challenger Rallye was its own model. In '73-'74 the Rallye was an option package on the base Challenger.

The '72 Rallye cars have tail panels that were painted black (organisol). The area around the tail lights on the '72 Rallye cars should be painted with argent, which is a textured gray paint.

The '72 base model Challengers had tail panels painted just the opposite of the Rallyes. The tail panel was painted argent and the area around the tail lights was painted with organisol black.

In '73-'74 since there was no separate Rallye model, all the tail panels were painted the same. They were argent with organisol black around the tail lights.