Rear window louvers dealer installed?

[TriplegreenRT]

My car has rear window louvers and rear wing but options J68 and J81 not listed on fender tag, or build sheet that i just found behind upper back seat. Wonder if this would have been dealership installed? Maybe first owner?

 

[70chall440]

Anything is possible

 

[Chryco Psycho]

If cars could talk !

 

[70chall440]

Back in the day anything was possible if you had the money to pay for it. I know of one case where a guy ordered a 440-6 car but when the car arrived it did not have one (was a 4BBL car), the dealer ordered up the 6 pack components and a short while latter viola.. 6 pack car... Of course today (if that car is still around) someone may be trying to convince someone else that it was a "6 pack car"...

 

[1972CudaV21]

Who knows?

 

[TriplegreenRT]

yes no way of knowing , just always thought it left the factory with the wing and louvers, maybe it did

 

[Steve340]

My factory louvers have small captive nuts or what I call rivet-nuts and threaded screws. Same with the G36 door mirrors.
How is yours attached? A dealer would have used self tapping screws I guess.
The parts could have been added by a previous owner from a donor car.

 

[70chall440]

My factory louvers have small captive nuts or what I call rivet-nuts and threaded screws. Same with the G36 door mirrors.
How is yours attached? A dealer would have used self tapping screws I guess.
The parts could have been added by a previous owner from a donor car.

Pretty sure most dealers had a riv-nut gun.... I've see replacement doors installed by dealers and they installed the rivnuts in them... just saying. Now if someone back in the day did it themselves then you are probably right, they used sheet metal screws.

 

[70chall440]

Of course there is always the possibility that the plant added them and they didn't get put onto the tag... Might be possible but not probable...

 

[Steve340]

Cool thanks for the info. If they have riv-nuts it would as you say mean a factory mistake or dealer installed.

 

[TriplegreenRT]

okay thanks will take a look and take a few pictures

 

[1972CudaV21]

Unless there is factory or dealer documentation, it’s all supposition. Over the last 50 years, people have added & removed parts countless times. Some cars have been “restored” 5 times by now. Plenty of E-Bodies have been re-bodied.

 

[TriplegreenRT]

wish i would have talked more to the guy i bought it from in 78, but it was a 5 minute transaction, just needed a car to get to work.

 

[1972CudaV21]

wish i would have talked more to the guy i bought it from in 78, but it was a 5 minute transaction, just needed a car to get to work.

Yup, they were just regular cars in ‘78...

 

[TriplegreenRT]

Probably just a buyer add on with these sheet metal screws. You can see the outline of the frost shield I was rocking in the 70’s.

 

[Steve340]

That looks to be a pretty authentic louver. Self tapping attach the little cables to the louver.
The riv-nut location would only be were the louver hinge attaches to the vinyl roof - 4 screws.

 

[flohemi]

I worked at Dodge dealerships from 83 to 2007, back in the early days we installed lovers, rear defrosters , A/C systems etc. After we installed them the paperwork would be updated so the factory would cover the installations under warranty, later years we would go online and update the options there so looking at your car, it looks like a very neat professional install so I'm thinking they are factory dealership installed options. Any paperwork for your car is most likely long gone. Hope this helped.

 

[TriplegreenRT]

Yes thanks for this information, the dealership it was bought new at has been gone for years also.
Glad it was added i like the look.

 

[RJHJR]

My wing was dealer installed. Have the receipt, $30 for the wing and $5 to install, but no brackets!

 

[TriplegreenRT]

cool , actually looking for another wing, some one liked mine more than i did and removed it