My friend has a '70 superbee that has red stripes in the grill -2 are painted red, two black, two red, etc. is this factory? he swears it is, but he didn't buy the car new...

If you mean the vertical bars of the grille, I've never heard of that.

The dealer brochure shows the grilles with the inner ring of the grille painted red, although it seems like none were actually built that way.

Hope this helps.

you can see them in that link i posted...they are vertical. very odd.

Never seen or heard such a tale. Does your friend have anything to back it up?

there is another superbee around with the same grill, and he bought one that matches the one on his car at a swap meet, but as far as actual codes or factory pics, no. we are curious if anyone else has seen this before. he is pretty sure that is how it came based on the other ones we found, but that's kinda why i was asking.

Can you get a part number off the grille? It would be interesting to see the application.

No way, no how, not a chance...

why is it so improbable?

i asked him to look for the part number...entirely possible it is from a coronet 500. or that they were short on regular grilles and used one of these instead.

i am back! i haven't been able to get a part # without removing the grill...it seems to be hidden. he has another one on his wall i am going to try to look at. i found this ad for a 70 coronet 500 with the stripes...like rug trucker said.

i looked really close to the stripes and they are painted on.

I've never seen anything like that, and I've seen quite a few of those old grills.

Mike

they look like they are red in the ad i attached...

Who cares, it look cool and you have a print ad to back it up. Just like the '71 Challenger T/A owners.

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.... .....you do know Galen Goiver has 2 vins on record of 71 T/A's........

thanks guys...if you see one in person pm me.

Not to change the year but again red in color

I always found this interesting and without an explanation from anyone - I have seen more then a few of these over the years - The horizontal stripe down the middle of 71 charger concealed headlamps - Most are black some gray/silver in color but - Trust me when i say my 71 Superbee concealed headlamps have never been restored - Yes there coded on the broadcast sheet/fender tag but the red in color - Anyways

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