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Originally Posted by giles
Bill, I try to never say "never". I will take issue with your comment on the parklamp fillers. Yes I believe that most all 70s were body color. I believe that most 71s and possibly even some very late 70s (like RAIV cars?) were silver. I know of at least two '71 documented cars that have silver bezels. I have seen and taken notes on too many painted 70s and silver 71s to believe much else. I do not believe that there was any disctinction made here between Formula and TA in this regard. But.... if you have some good evidence my ears are always open.... and this really should evolve into a seperate post as we are way off the black valance topic....
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I agree with giles on this one. I had also thought that all '70-'71 Firebirds were built with body colored parking lamp fillers. But after checking out every early Firebird I came across, I found that almost all of the '71 Firebirds had silver fillers. Almost all of the '70's had body colored fillers and most of the '72-'73 cars I've observed that had steel valances had the silver fillers also, although these cars were probably built with plastic valances and were later fitted with steel replacement valances. In these instances, the fillers were probably left silver when installed by the dealers.