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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.

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.....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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So...Am I reading this right...The challenger could have had an organisol painted back glass trim with the rear window louvers ?????

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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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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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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

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Tav, I'm thinking the gran coupes had it from the beginning...Mine has an SPD of 9-11-69...

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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 ?????

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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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So...Am I reading this right...The challenger could have had an organisol painted back glass trim with the rear window louvers ?????

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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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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