Hey Dartman great info and pictures. I was wondering did any of your cars have the V-8 emblem on the fenders ? and do you recall the build dates were they after mid nov. ? I also noticed the challenger emblem on trunk looks to be same location as mine. Sure was alot of variations on these cars. Thanks

Here's a fender pic from a 11/18/69 A66 Challenger, LA assembled.

Man this thread has me going thru thirty plus years of pics. It is making me cry over some of them I let get away. None of my A66 cars had V8 emblems. All were very early cars. My FC7 Ragtop did not have any engine callout. Hood and fender was blank. Here is a shot. This is an old photo taken in the desert in Phelan Ca. when it was getting loaded to ship to Mich.

Here it is the day it arrived in Mich. I had to clean it up good. It was winter time coming across the country. This was just after I washed it. Had bumper guards frt and rear and front lower valance chrome. Hood pins. Non rally dash.

Here is the engine comp. on the sublime car. The paint and most of the components were original. Rad was replaced with a Pep Boy's replacement. I like the Shaker sticker it was a real one not a repop that second owner put on when he bought it from the dealer. Still has alum tag on the master cyl.

Dartman, thanks for sharing; and more, more please, if you have them. Rumor has it that most rag top A66 cars got RT badges, which they shouldn't have but most did anyways. Have you seen any evidence of that?

I have never seen a A66 Car with R/T badges from the factory. The R/T emblems were only around $6.00 back then. People used to put them on 318 cars all the time. I remember I used to go into the parts department @ Westborn C.P. in Dearborn and buy 66 Hemi fender emblems for $3.95 all day long. I used to put them on everything. And yes before it's time I used to say Yeah It's got a Hemi in it. All my A66 Cars had a J54 rally hood. They were built very early. I have never seen an A66 car with V8 Emblems. A ton of 318 cars did. There is a guy I sold back in 1986 An A66 B3 with white top and interior 340 Auto. All original unrestored. It had a 383 Auto someone stuffed in it. They never finished getting it running. It was A H.P. 383. It had low miles like 24,000. I am trying to find pics of it. I have a friend of mine who has a A66 ragtop he has had since 1981. 340 Auto. DY3 Cream. Black top and interior.Loaded. A/C. power top and disc brakes. Black top and interior. The car has rally dash w/tach. Sport hood. Both mirrors. Power top. I have pics of it all original. It was a Feb 70 I believe. It might have had the V8 Emblems. Trying to fire up the way back machine to remember.

Close up. These are old old pics.

Since we are posting old A66 photos here is a shot of my A66 convertible when it was new. It was built on March 3rd, 1970. I was able to hunt down the original owner back in 1980 when I owned the car and he gave me this photo. When I got the car in 1978 it was brown and picked up all the R/T emblems. I took it back to original and sold it in 1984.

I am not new to this site but I haven't been on in a long time and I have since bought an A66 car that is a basket case. It does have its original engine and trans, along with a fender tag and broadcast sheet. Here is how the f.t. reads:
05 26 EN2
G33 M21 N41 N42 R11 V9X
V1X A01 A66 C16 C55 G31
FK% H6K4 000 B13 016050
E55 D32 JH23H0Bxxxxxx
I love this car and this thread. I have my hands full with a `68 Road Runner resto so I won't be working on this A66 car for a while. It didn't have a hood on it so I can't help with the hood callout thing but it did/does have R/T badges on it that appear factory, although I know a lot can happen in 40 years. I do know that this car has been parked for at least 25 years, outside unfortunately.

More pics.
Notice the R/T badge. The R/T badges that were on the fenders were the stick-on type.

I've got plenty more pics, including build sheet, let's keep going on this one.

What wheels & tires are on the b'cast sheet?

W21 Rallye Wheels, U82 E60-15 RWL Polyglass tires

Hey DeMatt that's going to be a nice A66 when done. I noticed it looks to have wheel lip moldings, does it call them out on the B/S ? Is it still wearing the original paint and if so do you see any signs of having a V-8 emblem on the front fenders ? Your build date would put it in the time frame of when they stopped putting V-8 emblems on cars that had the rallye hood with engine the call out. This would be one of the earlier cars I have seen with out them even with the rallye hood.

Hey thanks!. Yes it is original paint. The box for the wheel lip moldings is not checked on the build sheet but it's got them, along with the R/T badges. Maybe these things were added early on at the dealer. Notice the nice stainless mud flap as well, anybody seen these before?, often wonder if these might have been avaliable through the dealerships.

That picture above your last post is of my early build (928 SPD) A66 and has the same mud flaps. 99.9% sure it came from factory with wheel lip moldings. Could the mud flaps have something to do with a trim or tire package ?

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I'll be darned, I didn't even notice the mud flap in your pic. I wonder why these things were not called out on my build sheet?.

they are dealer installed is why dan