A few items I'm amazed no one reproduces:
1... Proper top well... Repro liners are just cloth, originals were cloth on the interior side but on the trunk side they had a layer of insulation covered with trash bag style black plastic woven in place with stitching.
2... Soft ray rear glass for convertibles.... Every convertible (that had a glass rear window) with AC or otherwise ordered with tinted glass-all windows came with a softray rear window as part of the top curtain.
3... 69 automatic exhaust extensions.... Every automatic GTO including Judges and RA IV's all had 2" tail pipes with resonators but only the 2.25 " manual trans version of exhaust extensions are reproduced.
4... Black Exhaust pipes.... Even great Companies like Gardiner exhaust sell repro exhaust systems with aluminized front exhaust pipes. While factory exhaust systems were aluminized from the muffler back the front exhaust pipes were painted black. This is quite noticeable in the engine bay on non A/C cars. Btw, in some years these front pipes were also double walled.
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My Break Away Squad
1969 Fbird (Base, 350 & Sprint Cvt’s - 400HO & TA Hardtops)
1969 LeMans (2dr & 4dr Hardtop and a Cvt)
1969 LeMans Safari 2 seat Wagon
1969 GTO (2 Cvt, 2 Hardtops & Judge Hardtop)
1969 Catalina (3 Cvt’s & a 2dr hardtop)
1969 Ventura 2 Seat Wagon
1969 Executive 4dr Sedan
1969 Bonnie Cvt
1969 Bonnie 3 Seat Wagon (2 of them)
1969 Bonnie Brougham (4dr Hardtop & Cvt)
1969 Grand Prix SJ (2 of them)
1969 2+2 2dr Hardtop (Canadian model)
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