Re: 71 billboard stripes
[Re: Little Detroit]
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03/11/18 01:59 PM
03/11/18 01:59 PM
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DAYCLONA
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billboards where not installed at assembly plant. they were shipped in the trunk of the car for the dealer to install to keep from getting damaged during shipping. as to the maker light housing would have been painted body color from the assembly plant. there is evidently no "correct way" to install stripes, all dealers were not constant. however, IMO , the marker light housing would remain body color and simply removed for installation of billboard and the housing would help hold the stripe in place. most likely you might find evidence of the stripe on the inside of the 1/4 panel where the opening may have been "x ed out" and folded over. you may check your inside door edge also. personally I would put the billboards on anyway, awesome look.
From what I recall on the subject, billboards were initially installed at the factory, hence the "black and white marker housings", then early into production, issues on the line regarding proper install and time allotment, plus dealer feedback from customers not wanting the stripes on the car led to them being shipped with the vehicle for dealer placement, dealers weren't concerned or knowing of the "correct" marker lite color/stripe coordination, so the original marker was re-installed whatever the body color was, hence the battle over some that proclaim their body colored non white/black side markers are original to their billboard equipped car... I guess one would have to have been there on the assy line/dealer operation to have known for sure...
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Re: 71 billboard stripes
[Re: DAYCLONA]
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03/11/18 04:16 PM
03/11/18 04:16 PM
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I guess one would have to have been there on the assy line/dealer operation to have known for sure... Uh-huh...
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Re: 71 billboard stripes
[Re: A12]
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03/18/18 08:36 PM
03/18/18 08:36 PM
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bremotorsports
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Gentleman, please view the attached.
My FE5 71 340 Cuda Convertible is an original Billboard option car (as in "Sport Stripe", indicated on the window sticker, broadcast sheet and fender tag as V6W), and I am the second titled owner. I had posed this question to the original owner previously (He sadly passed away last year)regarding the installation of the stripes, and they were on the car when it arrived at the dealership (Karl Gould CP of Vestal, NY).
Notice that the lamp retainers are covered with red paint, yet there is no trace of red on the marker bezels at all.Zero.So the assembly sequence certainly went like this:
Vehicle comes down the line with empty donor bezels, or perhaps even NO bezels, secured in the body by the retainers. Since this is a Billboard car with stripes yet to be applied, the donor bezels are subsequently removed, stripes applied, and prepainted bezels (marked in the castings as such directly on the bezels, in either black or white) are then substituted, with the reflectors, and the small marker lamps, then added to complete the installation. At least in my case, this is how it was done.
Interestingly, there is a gentleman with a 383 convertible in my 71 registry that still owns the car from new, and the stripe package is still in a box in the trunk!!! So it seems that for whatever reason, the factory flip-flopped on this.
Bill Rolik
201-394-5533 Cellular
bremotorsports@verizon.net
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