Does anyone have a good pic of a 71 R/T grille? I am looking for the colors and what gets painted each color. Any help would be great. Thanks

here are pics of my original R/T grille hope its what you are looking for

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The black sections of the R/T grille are actually natural, black plastic. Silver accents are done with the untextured light argent paint as used on rallye wheels (not the center caps).

Unless you're going for full OE, most folks use a satin black trim paint such as SEM for the appropriate sections, and it is a better match for the blackout on the headlight bezels.

I've got this saved in my computer as a NOS Grille.

The headlight bezels don't have the black tape stripe on the edges.

But I think later NOS R/T bezels didn't have the tape like production line pieces did. Please confirm or deny this.

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Thanks Autoxcuda. Exactly what I needed!

Both bezels on the right was NOS right out of the boxes. I painted the ones on the left to match. I used lacquer paint that is the interior black that was used on the dash and many other things inside the car. I got the paint number out of the factory service manual. It was a exact match.

The pair on top is correct I beleive, the one on the bottem left I painted first as practice and to see if it would match. It is not masked off properly.

Another picture of the first one I painted(not masked properly). It matched the NOS one perfect color wise.

I painted lot's of interior stuff with the lacquer paint.



First attempt at painting the grill, it's not right.


Missing some argent paint in this picture.

I added the argent in this picture, top and bottom.

Here's the paint I used, both numbers are straight out of the FSM.

71 Challenger R/T tail light bezels were originally all black out and only silver in the tailight lense inset area.

Two original paint survivor 71 R/T's

Yes you are right or so I have been told. I also have seen more than one car with it trimmed in argent.
I knew that when I painted mine and prefer the argent on top to breakup the blacked out tailend.

I also still have a original 71 RT 340 tail light bezel from a car I wrecked in 1978 that was original, that has the argent on top. I still have it and kept it and didn't use it on this clone. I can take pictures of it, it has the top edge trimmed in argent. So that's why I painted mine that way because my original was like that and I like it better that way. Still not saying it's right or correct.

This is the original paint rear tail light bezel from my 71 Challenger R/T

Not saying it's correct, but here is a car that was displayed by Ken Mosier from the Finer Details that I took pictures of.

I never said he restored it, just displayed it back in 2005.

The only reason I showed the yellow car was because he was standing there detailing them and the rear bezel on the yellow car appeared to have the top edge trimmed in non textured argent also?

Checkout this POS "restored" 71 RT grill. I bought it from Fuelinjectedfish from up in New york or somewhere back around 2004. I know he was a member here for while.


A bad bad E bay deal. He packaged it terrible and the one end got broke off during shipping. I glued it back together and then did not use it. He used what looks like some flat black BBQ grill paint on it. After I got that POS I knew I could do better than that myself.

Checkout this nasty paint job. There is no argent anywhere on it and he even painted the snorkels!