I know on my charger, the upper door frame plugs that covered the access holes for the vent window frame bolts were interior colored plastic. On our mostly unrestored 69 GTX vert, the plugs were black plastic while the interior is the T7 bronze color. Granted, everything with the interior of the car was all original with the exception of the seat covers and carpeting which were replaced due to fading. I would like to put the plugs back in the correct color if they are indeed supposed to be interior color and not black. Can anyone shed some light on what would be correct?

Not sure if they came in all of the upper door frame matching colors but then again my '68 road runner in green had matching green plugs. You may have to paint them to match?

I'm going to look at some photos of survivors to see if they all match the upper door frame color, back when I find out but sure someone will chime in before that.

I was thinking they were matched to the color of the interior but with 44 years on the car, its hard to tell if they were changed out or not. With how badly faded the sun visors were, I could see how the plastic would have dried out and became brittle and broke and then replaced with the generic black plugs.

Both my '68 GTX and the parts car had maroon guts....those plugs were maroon in both cars.

The plugs should match the interior colour.

Just so we are talking about the same plastic plugs..... The ones closest to the hinges.

That's the ones

HaH! i remember those from my Road Runner. crumbled up bit of whaite plastic (white interior) when i replaced them. only thing i know available is black.

On my 69 GTX with R6 red interior the door plugs are black.

I looked into this when I was doing my 'Bee and ascertained they should be interior colored (F8) in my case. Couldn't find a source so I had to use black ones.

Perhaps the plugs weren't available in every color. ...but green ones were for sure


Dave

Doesn't seem to be anyone out there who sells the colored plastic plugs. They only seem to be available in black and then you have to paint to match which I think the colored plastic was never a perfect match to the interior paint anyways.

Dave,

We are lucky enough to still have the small rubber plugs that go in the hole in the middle of the upper door frame and they are in perfect shape. Quite possibly due to different plastic/rubber make up as they seem to be more of a rubber plug than a plastic plug.

Having owned 4 orig paint '69 B Bodies over the years I was sure I'd have photos showing these plugs closest to the door hinges But, all I could find was the bronze '69 GTX showing the outer door/latch side. But that lower round plug is black against the bronze paint. The factory made no effort to put a body colored plug there. Then again, upper door frames were black on this black interior car.

Couldn't find close up photos of the inner door jamb areas. I'd guess that the factory in 1969 put in black plugs on many cars, regardless of UDF or body color. I could be very wrong though. The plugs don't show, so what factory assembler would really care? The door bumpers are all black. And you have black drain plugs in the trunk floors as well. Black goes with everything. They did make the effort to match the door lock lift/push knobs to the UDF paint color.

1969 Charger, original, unrestored, only 1 repaint in 1986

1969 Road Runner, original, unrestored, recent vinyl top, exhaust, wheels, that's it

pretty sure this is original paint and original plugs

and this one too but at first I thought you were asking about the small plug in the top center of the upper door frame (arrows) that always seem to be upper door frame color like the are in when painted