Goldenblack440 wrote:yes, the strobe stripes definitely look better from doors-onward but the rear quarter is still ok. What i was referring to was that the front bumper is colour coded and the rear is still chrome, did anyone pick that up? But it does look a touch pushed in at the front.
But i definitely think the blacked out front area improves the overall look of the front. That's only my opinion as i like plenty of black highlights on the Ebody. Perhaps it was only a 73 thing - here is a picture of a 73 Rallye (i think its your car Patrick?) and a dealer shot of a 74 CHallenger, with body colour front. I like the 73 front better. Both cars don't have the hood blackout decal, i wonder if that was offered in 73-74?
The blackout hood decal was NOT an option on 72-74 Challengers that I know of. The blackout on that car isn't a decal either. It's painted on. The 70-71 hood decal didn't go any farther than the top of the hood bulge. The one in the picture continues onto the part of the hood that recieved the engine callouts. The hood incerts were NOT painted black from the factory either. THey were body color.
The second picture of the Challenger is factory. The front fatia should NOT be blacked out. When you got the performance version of a 72-74 Challenger you got a black grill instead of the standard gray one. The reason the front fatia's were body color is that the leading edges of the front fenders are accually part of the fiberglass front fatia. In 70-71 there were seperate headlight bezels that screwed to the fenders.
Also, color matched bumpers were NOT an option on 72-74 Challengers either. THe front bumper in the first set of pics is just painted or is fiberglass.
The nice thing about this hobby is that you can do anything you want to your car. It doesn't matter what everyone else thinks. If you want to cut up an origonal HEMI or six-pak car and go racing, you can do it. You may get a lot of dirty looks but it's YOUR car. Do with it what you want.
That said. My personal preference is leaving the front fatia body color as well as the hood incerts. Something just looks OFF to me when I see that.
As far as the stripes in the first set of pictures...I would take off the 440 sticker and continue the strobes all the way to the back of the quarter panel. That would look good.