[ratchetmaster]

I have a 1973 4 dr ventura.
Here are the details:

vin# 2Z69M3L11----

Trim Tag on firewall

ST 73 2XY69 L 122831 BDY

TR 221 A52 26 A PNT

1A 7 122831 040445

It is a 350 pontiac motor with a 2bbl
A/C power steering manual drum brakes

It has the one opening per side checker board grill with fiberglass surround (or what you guys are refering to as "spring grills").

Car has 69,000 original miles

It has the chrome that surrounds the door frames (all 4 doors)

Bench seat shift on the column 350 turbo trans.
Seatbelts are color key coded blue like the rest of the interior (blue plastic female covers).
Hope this helps. I'd be glad to answer any questions about the car.

Tim

[ratchetmaster]

forgot to mention the above car is a custom.

[rememberfireball#22]

There is always the possibility that any of the cars you folks are discussing could have been involved in a front end collision and repaired with mismatched parts off of many different cars. Body shops have a habit of buying complete LKQ fronts and then using only the parts that they need and then selling the left overs. The shops could not care less if they had custom parts or Sprint collision parts, since they will all interchange.. And if the owner was the little old lady that just drives to church would not know the difference in the grille. I know most of you guys would, but how many just plain folks[not gear heads] bought these cars?

[UPC-WU2]

I have a '73 Ventura order form, for what it's worth.

http://www.gt-37.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3591

[74GOAT]

Everyone has pretty much covered the grilles for you with the exception being the signal lights in the grilles were 74 GTO only, not available on the regular Ventura line up where the signals were in the lower bumper area. Also I read somewhere the honeycomb grilles were used in LATE 73 year produced models

[chicagoland]

Per another thread, it was a "front styling option" code T41, for 1973 MY.