Did Pontiac initiate a program to replace the plastic lower valance with the steel valance?
Back in the early to mid 1980s, I ran into a Ford guy who had bought a bunch of NOS parts from a small town Pontiac dealership that closed in around 1975. He was planning to go through the parts and sell them on Hemmings but never got around to it. I was able to buy everything he had, which was about four pickup truck loads.
Among the inventory were roughly a dozen new 70-72 lower valance panels and a box full of the brackets for the middle support. The dealership wasn't that large, and the number of Firebird valance panels seemed disproportionate to the reest of the parts. My guess is that they were having to replace a bunch of broken valance panels, or Pontiac was replacing them with metal under warranty.
Mike
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