Bruce,
I agree, the plastic valance with the heavier metal lamp housings would be impractical. Although several '72 owners claim that their cars were delivered with metal valances, most people say that all '72 and '73 Firebirds were delivered from the factory with plastic valances and the ones with metal valances were replaced at some point after they were damaged. I've never seen any factory documents that can confirm either theory. I'd like to know when the changeover from metal parking lamp housings to plastic ones took place. I would think that it would have been earlier in the model year than January '72, otherwise we would see a whole lot more '72 cars with these metal housings.
Last edited by Jim Rotella; 09-14-2007 at 12:45 AM.
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