71 - 74 Charger " NASCAR" hood?

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Some 71 hoods also had a gap in the middle between vents. Mine is an original 71 Super Bee with a first month build date.

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Okay ya'll... I have it figured out; here we go!

1971 thru 1974 Chargers came with hoods.
The end.

Seriously now - I have ALL ORIGINAL cars/hoods; I just went and took pictures of all but one. Here are the results:

1971 Charger 500, 383, flat hood, cowl vents WITH gap in center
1971 Charger Superbee, 383 magnum, bulge hood, cowl vents NO gap
1971 Charger R/T, 440 sixpack, air grabber hood, cowl vents NO gap
1971 Charger R/T, 440 magnum, louvered hood, cowl vents WITH gap
1974 Charger SE, 440, flat hood, NO cowl vents
197x Charger UNK, UNK, power bulge hood, ???? (this hood is in storage - will check tomorrow!)

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hey 71383bee-awesome looking bee-I laid down purp on my 68 coronet/bee clone-pretty girls & children comment and seem to admire this color-are your fender turn signal indicators factory and if so were they not originally chrome?

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Thanks!

I love FC7 it really draws a crowd at the shows. Kids and the ladies do like it alot. They always ask if it was a real color.

The fender mounts are modified plymouth B body units. I wanted painted lights and Dodge only had smaller Chrome ones for 71/72. Plymouth had the longer painted style that would mount either over the wheelwell or on the hood depending on the type of hood you got on the roadrunner or GTX. I loved their look so i modified the fenders to take the plymouth style. I am going for as little chrome as possible.

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The original hood for my '72 Rallye has the previously mentioned small gap in the louvers.

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Now to really mix things up. this weekend at the World of Wheels car show in Milwaukee i talked with a guy who had his black on black 72 charger since he was 16 and never changed the rallye hood...it had no vents!

I'll post some pics later.

The mystery continues...

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Excuse me for getting off topic but where did you find 265/60x15 tires?

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thanks 440, I was wondering when you would come on here to straighten some of this stuff out.

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Not sure I'll straighten ANYTHING out... but I'll help confuse, if given the oppertunity.

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I agree with you I think these are parts he modded over the years. It was a P coded 72 charger. As he was showing it to me I noticed the following:

1. standard shoebox dash
2. Rallye bulge hood w/ no vents - the bulge was also painted flat black
3. P on the vin which I thought was 400 - 2Bbl, but it was a 400 4 barrel (Tquad on tquad intake with the correct air cleaner)
4. E body style spoiler in the correct location
5. Definately a custom interior, but all of the creases and seams fit perfectly for a stock interior.

It was a very nice car, but something in me said there is NO WAY this is 100% stock.

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For what it's worth, you COULD get a 72 Rallye with the P-code 400 2v. Starting in 72, the 318 was the std Rallye engine, with the 340 4v, 400 2v, 400 4v, 440 4v, or the 440+6 as options.

HOWEVER... ALL 72-4 Charger Rallyes got the "rallye" dash instead of the std. bar dash

The ONLY way to get a buldge hood on a 72-4 Charger, was to order the Rallye package. The Buldge hood was NOT available on any other Charger.

So I'd say the guy had a standard Charger with the added goodies. Which is 100% acceptable, as long as you don't try to pass it of as original.

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On the hoods...did the hoods differ in 71 per factory or was it a mid year change?

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Wish I could honestly answer this for ya. I don't have enough info to make any informed statements on this. There are 2 71 R/Ts local to me that are low milage originals...I need to do some investigation work on which hood style they have and where/when they were produced. I'll keep ya posted.