Headliner bows were sandblasted, so no color markings on the ends. Is there a stamped identification number, or do they each measure differently? How can I identify their order?
'71 Charger SE - Headliner Bow Order Identification
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I see they are discount eligible from YearOne and sold at CI. Repops are identification marked too. Tell me if I'm wrong in my assumption to just buy new ones....!
drobertson
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How many rods are there? I don't know if 73 is the same as 71, but I can measure them for you in order.
Very kind of you to do that!! There are 6 bows in total, so it must be an early '71. Thanks!!!
drobertson
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Ok my car only has 4 bows, but it has holes slotted into the roof structure for extra ones.... like your 71 has. I'll measure and post a picture of my 4 bows, and which slots they go into. The 2 extra on your 71 shouldn't be hard to figure out after that.
Bb70charger500
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The smaller bows go in the front biggest to the rear nacho will probably have better or more info his dang smart but I believe there's only 3 different ones my 72's have 4 bows so I'm afraid I am not much more helpful
I wonder if I can find the clips that come with new ones for my old ones? Pics from CI seem to show clips.
Nacho-RT74
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I'd like to help but I can't recall... and my car is a thousands miles from home since 4 years. I hope the body man didn't remove them from the headliner.
When I removed mine the first time they were off the car for a year or so. never took note of how they should be there so I went instinctivelly on the reinstall job and made it with success.
as far I recall all 4 are diff ( being 74, is of course 4 bows ), two of them REALLY close one to the other
When I removed mine the first time they were off the car for a year or so. never took note of how they should be there so I went instinctivelly on the reinstall job and made it with success.
as far I recall all 4 are diff ( being 74, is of course 4 bows ), two of them REALLY close one to the other
Nacho-RT74
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BTW as far the colors... didn't tell me nothing... all 4 bows were one color on one end and another color at the other end. I think beige and pink
drobertson
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Ok I'm back from measuring.
In summary,
Listed measurements for a 71 :
4-bow cars are identical in roof structure, but they don't use rods #3 & #5.
Another thing to take note of, is that all 71-4 B's had two thin wire hooks clipped onto the rearmost bow, to keep things in-line.
All my pictures are on my phone, I'll post them from there in a few minutes.
In summary,
Listed measurements for a 71 :
- frontmost bow (#1) : 50.5"
- bow #2 : 50.5"
- bow #3 : in between 50.5" to 50.25" - if not either one.
- bow #4 : 50.25"
- bow #5 : probably between 50" to 50.25", based on a measurement based guess.
- rearmost bow #6 : 55.75"
4-bow cars are identical in roof structure, but they don't use rods #3 & #5.
Another thing to take note of, is that all 71-4 B's had two thin wire hooks clipped onto the rearmost bow, to keep things in-line.
All my pictures are on my phone, I'll post them from there in a few minutes.
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Cmxe58
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Drobertson, it would save my day if you had a chance to drop those pics of the orientation of the bows in regards to the holes..... I'm trying to save someone from losing out terribly on a project and it was given basically a shell....yhis headliner is the last thing on my list before I'm able to give it back to them...... Any help would be awesome
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The bows go in according to height. not width. Shallow bow first and the deeper ones going back. The first 4 bows are the same. Then the 5th is a little deeper and the 6th is the deepest.
'68 Charger
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I have these clips available if you're looking for them.
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