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Originally Posted by MikeNoun
Just curious about something on the 73 GTO's....when was the hood scoop area blacked out, and when was it body color? Seems like all the factory literature I've seen shows the scoop area body colored, with the vertical part of the scoops (or where they would be opened if they had Ram Air) being blacked out, but I keep seeing examples where the entire scoop area is blacked out, or even painted red like on the photo shown above?
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I have seen both on original, unrestored cars. I parted a Florentine red 4 speed that had black scoops. My current 56k mile original paint Florentine red 4 speed has body colored scoops. Both were made at the Pontiac, MI plant. I know the build date of my current car according to the build sheet was 1/8/73.
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