Where can I get the lighter woodgrain pattern vinyl insert for 1970 only Challenger doors?
Gerry

I don't think the 70 cars were necessarily all the lighter woodgrain.

If you look on the back of the metal door plate that the woodgrain sticks to, you'll see #s for both Kashmir grain & Walnut grain. I think the Kashmir is the lighter more red grain. So far, no one seems to have figured out what determines if a car received Kashmir or Walnut. If Kashmir matches your console top/rallye gauges and it's what you want, I think the first place I'd check with is Performance Car Graphics in Tallahassee Florida. Another good person to check with would be Jim from Detroit Muscle Technologies. You may end up trying to match your original to contact paper at the local home improvement store. If you do that, I'd suggest using additional adhesive.

Tav

Hey Tav, do you have the actual numbers handy?

I have never seen actual Chrysler documentation that listed different woodgrain colors for E BODIES. I'd be very interested to see any mention.

I DO know the woodgrain for the door inserts and console tops came from 3M. The material was called DINOC (sp?) It was a paper backed vinyl that had the texture on the surface. 3M made a TON of colors and versions. Much of it was used on cheap furniture in the 60's and 70's. they discontinued it here in the US market but did (OR DO) still sell it in Japan and Europe. I stopped my investigation at that point.

There is only ONE manufacturer of the TEXTURED vinyl that a few of use use for E bodies console tops now. Only comes in one close color. They make like 5 colors but they are not even close to anything Chrysler used. I have a swatch book somewhere. I'll post a picture.

All the cars I parted that were early cars had the lighter and red cast/look. And 71 up ones were darker non red look.
I think the same as Jim that it was just a change in dye lots from the vendor.
I do not think it was intentionaly done.
I have parted plenty E's
I Remember the post 71TA had on this he searched quite a few venders for it and asked about build dtaes ect.

This info is from another thread about the Rallye dash woodgrain...

Dave at PCG says in the original cars, the door woodgrain & the dash bezel grain did not match. Dave said he did 4 years research on all the woodgrain combinations,lettering and correct shade of browns. According to Dave at PCG, early & late year cars differed in woodgrain shade.

Tav