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Shouldn't the inside be painted with organisol. My 73 is also a Rallye. Inside the tail lights is black. I have seen 72-74's that have a black tail panel and argent inside the bezel. I never knew if that was factory or not.

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The Rallyes had black tail panels with argent around lights...the non- rallyes had argent tail panels with black around lights. Mine is a Rallye and had black tail panel when I bought it but I changes it because I liked the non-rallye look better.

I don't think we are ever going to know 100% I have seen conflicting information. 72's might have had a black tail panel but I'm not sure. I have a theory but don't know how accurate it is. In 72 the Rallye was its own model. Challenger Rallye's had a VIN that started with JS23. All other Challengers had a VIN that started with JH23. In 73-74 that changed. All Challengers were JH23's and the Rallye was just an available package on the base model. Maybe all Rallye Challengers in 72 had the blacked out tail panel. Then in 73-74 sinse all Challengers were now JH23's...they all got the argent tailpanel. All I know is that my car is a Rallye and it has the argent tail panel with the organisol sprayed around the tail lights just like the picture of the other JA5 Challenger I posted.



Just to let everyone know...the bodyshop played around with the Totally Auto argent paints and came up with something I can live with. The light argent was way too light. The med/dark was way too dark even though that is what the factory says is correct. They ended up spraying a test card with the dark argent and then sprayed the light agrent ontop of the dark. The end result was a color that was a little darker than the light argent. It doesn't look exactly how I would like it but, short of shipping the car to the west coast and having someone else spray the real stuff, I think it will look OK.

Maybe this will shed some light?

http://karstentwele.com/challenger/EXTERIOR/exterior.html