Are you sure it came with that bumper? Maybe someone replaced it with a satellite bumper.
Anything that's unusual on the car....I like to keep it and the strips don't bother me at all. A buddy of mine had a Satellite with the low end base interior including the rubber floor mats. Whoever ordered that car wanted the body trim and didn't care about the interior. My 66 Belvedere I 2dr sedan came with factory AC and auto trans but that was it. I'm still kicking my butt for selling the AC system.
Heck, I swapped an entire interior from a 70 Duster into a 67 Dart in the mid 70's....and was surprised that even the rear side panels fit the Dart. All I had to do was remove the perforated 'cut outs' for the window cranks in the Dart. Everything else was a bolt in. Swapping stuff was happening pretty early....at least in my world.Your car is such an oddball I’d leave them on there.
I see those strips in NOS on eBay every so often. I think they look great.
Salesman and customers didn’t know all the option groups back then.
It has been 55 years and parts get swapped. Even entire interiors. Didn’t like what was in it, or it was trashed, found a swap car with a great interior but it was the deluxe one, swap it in there anyway.
my first car was a 68 rr bought in in the year 1970 for 1600 dollars, i remember reading back in the day that all the first 68's were post car's mine was.chrysler under estimated how many they were to sale and ran out of the post sedan's and the later run of the 68's were made from satellite hdtp bodies that might explain some of the satellite stuff on the rr's
mine was a factory hurst shifter. all i can say is if youv'e ever shifted a 383 at about 6 or 7 grand you would throw that inland shifter in the scrape pile where it belongs