Mystery regarding side stripes on the 74...

74Slant6Charger · Apr 20, 2020

In this picture you can see that a P.O. applied a different type of sticker to this car in a likely quickie refresh some time ago... over top of the old one.
also attached is the data plate.
which sticker type am I needing to source?

thank you!!

BeepBeepRR · Apr 20, 2020

https://www.graphic-express.com/mop...973-74-dodge-charger-mid-body-stripe-kit.html

T2R9 · Apr 20, 2020

V6K is the cooper colored side stripes pictured above.

Sixpaksteve · Apr 20, 2020

I never knew what I had when I bought this '74 while still in high school in 1977. Do you think it's stripe was the V6K code stripe as well?

T2R9 · Apr 20, 2020

Hard to tell in that picture. There is also V6R which is the graduated red which kinda looks like yours.

BeepBeepRR · Apr 20, 2020

These are the colors they offer.

BLACK GLOSS
MATT BLACK (FLAT)
TOMATO RED
WHITE
CUSTOM COLOR - NO RETURNS +$30.00
CUSTOM REFLECTIVE - NO RETURNS +$54.00

Sixpaksteve · Apr 21, 2020

Thanks for your replies. Unfortunately that's the best color pic of the car that I have.

74Slant6Charger · Apr 21, 2020

here's another resource someone shared with me:

https://www.phoenixgraphix.com/p-d/ct311r.php

Sixpaksteve · Apr 21, 2020

That's pretty cool that those stripes are still available today given the very few years the factory put them on those Dodges.

74Slant6Charger · Apr 21, 2020

I also just found this little gem:

74Slant6Charger · Apr 21, 2020

Sixpaksteve said:
I never knew what I had when I bought this '74 while still in high school in 1977. Do you think it's stripe was the V6K code stripe as well?

View attachment 939227

I wonder if yours was Dark Moonstone (KL8) ??

74Slant6Charger · Apr 21, 2020

74Slant6Charger said:
I wonder if yours was Dark Moonstone (KL8) ??

The paint I mean

Nacho-RT74 · Apr 21, 2020

Sixpaksteve said:
I never knew what I had when I bought this '74 while still in high school in 1977. Do you think it's stripe was the V6K code stripe as well?

View attachment 939227

that's the V6K stripe.

Nacho-RT74 · Apr 21, 2020

T2R9 said:
Hard to tell in that picture. There is also V6R which is the graduated red which kinda looks like yours.

there is also a "gold" one coded V6Y... while the V6K is "copper"

Sixpaksteve · Apr 21, 2020

Yes, I distinctly remember that my paint was called Dark Moonstone, and the off-white vinyl top on the car was also factory. I bought the car in 1977 at a Chevrolet dealer here in Maryland that I was working at part time as I was finishing up high school. Someone had traded it in on a new Chevy and I picked it up before it was offered for sale on their used car lot.

I've never seen another one exactly like it and I sure wish that I had it today.....

Here's what the cloth interior looked like on mine that your article refers too. I found this pic online of a 73 Charger interior....

Nacho-RT74 · Apr 21, 2020

BeepBeepRR said:
https://www.graphic-express.com/mop...973-74-dodge-charger-mid-body-stripe-kit.html

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the only source for the gradated reflective stripes is Phoenix Graphics... The red ones are incorrect. Dunno the rest but I bet they are also not tottaly correct.

Original stripes were made on silkscreeen, while the ones they sell are printed. Althought the printing pattern they make is really good to emulate the sillscreen pattern, they miss a black layer over the gradation, which makes them look wrong

74Slant6Charger · Apr 21, 2020

Sixpaksteve said:
Yes, I distinctly remember that my paint was called Dark Moonstone, and the off-white vinyl top on the car was also factory. I bought the car in 1977 at a Chevrolet dealer here in Maryland that I was working at part time as I was finishing up high school. Someone had traded it in on a new Chevy and I picked it up before it was offered for sale on their used car lot.

I've never seen another one exactly like it and I sure wish that I had it today.....

Here's what the cloth interior looked like on mine that your article refers too. I found this pic online of a 73 Charger interior....

View attachment 939452

That's our interior too!

74Slant6Charger · Apr 21, 2020

Nacho-RT74 said:
the only source for the gradated reflective stripes is Phoenix Graphics... The red ones are incorrect. Dunno the rest but I bet they are also not tottaly correct.

Original stripes were made on silkscreeen, while the ones they sell are printed. Althought the printing pattern they make is really good to emulate the sillscreen pattern, they miss a black layer over the gradation, which makes them look wrong

how about this guy:

http://www.mrmoparts.net/products/1973-74-charger-rallye-reflective-mid-body-side-stripe-kit.html

Sixpaksteve · Apr 21, 2020

74Slant6 if you could post up some pics of your interior I'd sure like to see them. :thumbsup:

Nacho-RT74 · Apr 21, 2020

guys, we are talking about spring special car. A car made in just one color combo... which was by default hardtop, but optionally with M07 opera quarter window

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