ok did some research on the fender tag and here is what I found, built nov 22 1966 in detroit, it seems to be a basic option car. bucket seat, console shift auto, 273 2bbl 293 gear ratio rear arm rest with ash tray and it was bright blue met(code 881) with white horizontal striping. I cant seem to find any photos of restored car's with any striping other than the GTX hood and deck lid stripes. do folks just not like them so they are left out of the resto or was this not a common option? Also this came with the indicator lights on the fender's, I have also seen a few cars with headrest's was this an option or a calif thing??
Hey, congrats on your '67 Satellite.
Do you mean the thin pin stripe painted at the upper body crease? If so, that was standard on '67 Satellites. I believe standard on GTX's too. It was either white or black. You had to delete it if you didn't want them. It seems that a lot of resto's didn't put the pin stripes back on. Mine didn't and I have left it that way.
Fender top turn signals were also standard on '67 Sat and GTX's. Headrests were an option, but the '67 buckets were all made with the holes already in the frames, so they are easy to retrofit on '67's. '66 bucket seat frames only had the holes if the headrests were ordered, so they are hard to retrofit. Headrests became mandatory nationwide in '69, don't know about CA.
'67 Satellite and GTX's shared the 'finned' rear tail lights (and finned trunk panel). Belvies had the simpler style tail light, but the bezels interchange w/GTX-Sats, so on the cars you are looking at someone must have retrofitted Belvie tail lights. My '67 Satellite had that done to it when I bought it, so I corrected it. Note: The Belvie lenses DON'T interchange w/GTX-Sats. You have to swap the whole housing and all to interchange them.
Just so you know: Original Satellite side trim (wheel arches and lower crease horizontals) is all aluminum. GTX and Belvie II's are stainless. They don't interchange. It is hard, but not impossible, to find the correct aluminum '67 Satellite trim. Front grilles for '67 Sat/GTX/Belvies are all the same except for how they are painted: Black, white, argent, dark argent. Only Sats and GTX's have the Red-White-Blue center grille emblem.
Good luck and have a blast!
-Art
