Are fender tags body colour? here is mine, back side looks copper plated, front size is a creme colour. thanks

second pic of back side

I thought they were all body colour. I removed a bit of the creme colour off of mine and there is no signs of any other colour under the creme. I will repaint in plum crazy though. thanks

hey Doug, I got all of the 71 info and registry from Dan in Edmonton years ago. A fellow (Cliff) from Calgary and myself have a registry going for the 71 340 cars and the 72's. Also Adam has a included the Canadian cars in his Swinger registry. thanks

Yep it should be Purple. Looks like whoever painted the car stripped the tag too.

Very few of those cars had any options and yours is a pretty plain Jane example. Except the 340 and the color of course !

I read about the 71 340 cars years ago from a paper Dan wrote, I then seen mine on the bargin finder paper in Edmonton. I have family there so they went and checked it out and bought it. Then I started to chat with Dan and he said he was getting away from the A body's and going back to the e or b bodys (don't remember) and offered for me to purchase his research and a 71 slant parts car. I did and have being restoring mine ever since. There are around 21 71 remaining that we know about. Mine is a crestview car so it has the H2XW interior and the trim package. The crosstown cars were all plain jane's, some did not even get the scoops. The auto cars did not get the boxed in front leaf mounts. Mine has front disc's but not sure if any others had that option. But a few more thousand hours and agzillion dollars and mine will be done:).

The tag appears not to have a crease from it being bent, would that mean it was hanging somewhere during body (colour) painting????? What assembly plant was this car built in....just curious?


MikeR

Windsor & it does have a bend. Not all tags were bent far enough to make an actual crease.