Re: louver back window moulding
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This was a Cuda thing so you would not see it on Challengers. However for both cars if you ordered a vinyl top with the louvers it had to be black.
.....I currently have a set of both, the cuda ones are embossed, they were available on Louvered equipped cars, and Grand Coupes in 70-1
the Challenger set That I have are just smooth, but painted with organsol, the surface underneath is dull, not polished
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Re: louver back window moulding
[Re: screamindriver]
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09/25/08 08:10 PM
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So...Am I reading this right...The challenger could have had an organisol painted back glass trim with the rear window louvers ?????
That is what Mike mentioned, the two cars I'm familar with both have normal polished stainless & Ken's comment is actually pertaining to the vinyl top itself, always black if you got louvers, no white, no green, no Gator Grain....Black....Which the way it was written in the salesmans guide lead allot of dealers to believe you couldn't get louvers with any vinyl top....
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Re: louver back window moulding
[Re: cataclysm80]
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09/26/08 09:00 AM
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On the louvered cudas that did Not receive the textured trim, was the trim left shiny, or also painted black?
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Re: louver back window moulding
[Re: cataclysm80]
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09/26/08 10:27 AM
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so let me get this strait, all challengers with window louvers received the black window trim? this would be nice to know, because our TA is suppose to have the louvers. -kevin
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Re: louver back window moulding
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09/26/08 11:30 AM
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so let me get this strait, all challengers with window louvers received the black window trim? this would be nice to know, because our TA is suppose to have the louvers. -kevin
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Re: louver back window moulding
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09/26/08 02:01 PM
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At what point in production were louvers available?
before the louvers were available, did gran coupes with black tops get regular rear window trim?
Tav
Tav, I'm thinking the gran coupes had it from the beginning...Mine has an SPD of 9-11-69...
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Re: louver back window moulding
[Re: 1_WILD_RT]
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09/26/08 05:16 PM
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So...Am I reading this right...The challenger could have had an organisol painted back glass trim with the rear window louvers ?????
That is what Mike mentioned,
Randy......about 3 decades of parting out E bodies, probally a few hundred cars?......(between me and Chet Greenwood, we probally culled quite a few hundred E bodies on the east coast!).....I use to avg 3 cars a month, every month,year after year... not counting the ones in salvage yards that I stripped.....generally ALMOST all of the black vinyal topped 70-1 Grand Coupes had black textured trim, ...not all though........rear window louvered cars were SCARCE!.....usally 99 percent of the time the louvers were gone, or totaly trashed,.....I've only had 2 70 Challengers(parts cars) that were equipped with black vinyl tops and had rear window louvers, although the louvers were "swiped" from both cars, their trim was intact,.....black organsol painted, I stripped one set to refinish for my T/A,.....just raw stainless, no polished finish, seeing that I have 2 sets, the same, I would assume this is how the factory may have finished some cars?....if not all?...It's just like when you see a E body 3 spoke woodgrain steering wheel with a half rim horn ring?......the same with the Challenger black rear window trim......may have been an early option, or treatment later dropped?.......I didn't document the cars
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Re: louver back window moulding
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09/26/08 11:48 PM
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So...Am I reading this right...The challenger could have had an organisol painted back glass trim with the rear window louvers ?????
That is what Mike mentioned,
Randy......about 3 decades of parting out E bodies, probally a few hundred cars?......(between me and Chet Greenwood, we probally culled quite a few hundred E bodies on the east coast!).....I use to avg 3 cars a month, every month,year after year... not counting the ones in salvage yards that I stripped.....generally ALMOST all of the black vinyal topped 70-1 Grand Coupes had black textured trim, ...not all though........rear window louvered cars were SCARCE!.....usally 99 percent of the time the louvers were gone, or totaly trashed,.....I've only had 2 70 Challengers(parts cars) that were equipped with black vinyl tops and had rear window louvers, although the louvers were "swiped" from both cars, their trim was intact,.....black organsol painted, I stripped one set to refinish for my T/A,.....just raw stainless, no polished finish, seeing that I have 2 sets, the same, I would assume this is how the factory may have finished some cars?....if not all?...It's just like when you see a E body 3 spoke woodgrain steering wheel with a half rim horn ring?......the same with the Challenger black rear window trim......may have been an early option, or treatment later dropped?.......I didn't document the cars
Mike,
Did you ever go to a guy's body shop in Worcester owned by a guy named Wayne (IIRC)? He had a persnal Mopar salvage yard in the back of the shop with a bunch or real hi-po cars for parts! Chet beat me to a '70 340 4-spd FJ5 louver/go wing car that showed up one weekend. I got the lid from the car and got the wing off of Chet. I have pics of the car and it clearly shows regular stainless moldings. Chet cut the 4-spd hump out and went right through the tran X-member! A real shame, ended up a parts car because the roof was cut for a sunroof It was a very clean original paint car, but this was around '91, and 340 cars had no real value at the time
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