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Those were the Good 'Ole Days. Now you just get more plastic on top of plastic when you special order something for your plastic pig. They all look the same nowdays too, all copy each other.

Those were the Good 'Ole Days. Now you just get more plastic on top of plastic when you special order something for your plastic pig. They all look the same nowdays too, all copy each other.

That's the reason the aftermarket industry has blown up in the last ten years. Everyone wants to personalise their vehicle. You had that to a certain extent back in the 60's and 70's but not to the scale that it's at now. When the factories produce "cookie cutter" cars you can bet there will be people waiting to make them stand out in a croud.

Shakers were body colour in 1970. In 71 they were available in either body colour or Matte Black according to my understanding. There were many more N-96 cars made in 1971 with a variety of engines.

Accually there is some debate as to what is correct on the shacker bubbles. I have seen many 70 Cuda's and Challengers with med/dark argent shackers. There were red ones on red cars but I think that was an option because I have seen some that are painted argent. Somewhere along the line they were available in black.

There was a big post on this on another site. Maybe I can look for it.

To elaborate further on the Great "Shaker debate" According to Daniel Banker who operates the 1970 N-96 Challenger Registry and Roger Gibson who has restored many of the N-96 E-Bodies,,The Cuda's were first released with the Argent Silver coloured N-96 Shakers. This caused some vision problems with the flakes reflecting sunlight into the drivers eyes. During a brief production run the Chrysler Safety people decided to change the Colour to body colour or Black Matte during 1970.. I have a picture of mine from 1975 that shows my 1970 N-96 Challenger with a Black Matte bubble. I dont think Ive ever seen a 1971 N-96 E-Body with Argent colour. I'm not saying all this is factual,,I'm far from an 'expert' on these cars,,just relaying info that I've run across,,from the 'Experts" BTW,, it's 'Shaker' not shacker which is a HOMO BUM!!

I have heard that after May of 1970 is when the "shaker" bubbles started coming in black. Production of the shaker hoods was also stopped in early 1970 or late 69 due to people being killed after front end collitions. The hood was redesigned with "crush zones" built into the under structure.

A previous thread on another site from over a year ago just came up again. It turns out the Danial Banker passed away sometime in the last year. I don't know if anyone has continued his work or not.

burdar wrote:I have heard that after May of 1970 is when the "shaker" bubbles started coming in black. Production of the shaker hoods was also stopped in early 1970 or late 69 due to people being killed after front end collitions. The hood was redesigned with "crush zones" built into the under structure.

A previous thread on another site from over a year ago just came up again. It turns out the Danial Banker passed away sometime in the last year. I don't know if anyone has continued his work or not.

What! No way man,,what the hell happened,, I just spoke with him spring of 2008,,I told him my N-96 Car was OK after the flood here. He wasnt that old or in bad health that I know of,, Where did you get this info Burdar?? Daniel Banker owned as many as 6 'Correct' examples of the 184 N-96 1970 cars total they made that year. Thanks

Go to www.moparts.com and go into the web board.(very first link) Look in the "tech archive/best of moparts" section. They just moved the thread into that section so it wouldn't get deleted. There is a lot of good info in that thread.

Well, I guess he has passed. Sorry to hear of this. I would like to know what will become of his documentation and research.