Blacking Out the Front & Rear

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Offline Prowler Orange Challenger

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Blacking Out the Front & Rear
« on: December 18, 2005 - 12:32:21 PM »
Okay I know some of you all have seen my thread about where I'm going to fixing up my Challenger. I was wondering what is the correct way to black out the rear & front of my car. I have a base model 71 Dodge Challenger Coupe and I was wondering what piece I need if any to black it out. Also, what color black paint do I use to do this with?




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Re: Blacking Out the Front & Rear
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2005 - 03:09:10 PM »
organisol black , basically a semi gloss black
 the whole grille & the cast tailight panel was blacked out on R/T cars originally

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Re: Blacking Out the Front & Rear
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2005 - 03:11:24 PM »
If its a base model it seems to me that the front and rear were argent silver and not black out.
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Re: Blacking Out the Front & Rear
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2005 - 06:21:10 PM »
The 1971 Dodge body service manual shows Ditzler code 9000 to be the black used for striping and grilles.  You can try a small amount to make sure it is right.  If you choose to go with the silver textured paint the code is Ditzler DNA-8575. The factory black had no texture; whereas the silver is textured.  You can see that to do the black properly you will need to first strip the silver off to arrive at the factory look.
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Re: Blacking Out the Front & Rear
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2005 - 05:47:26 PM »
Thanks guys. It's that textured silver now. Sorry if I confused people but, I plan to black it out to make it more like an R/T.