72 Challenger Sail Panels

[jetsurgeon]

I have looked around the message boards, but can't seem to find a clear answer to this.
I have a 72 Challenger Rallye I am finally starting to restore (after 10 years of sitting in the garage after my divorce), and the car as I bought it had the entire interior basically removed. I have most of the original interior plastic parts, but there was no headliner or carpet in the car.
My question is, for the headliner were there sail panels used in this model? I have seen some posts that say yes, some that say no... at the bottom of the "sail area" on each side is a strip of "alligator teeth" that I am assuming where the headliner attaches, and I have ordered a new headliner from Legendary, but don't know if I need sail panels or not?? Thanks in advance!

[burdar]

Since you already ordered the headliner the answer is yes...you need the sail panels.  Legendary sells "perforated" headliners.  My opinion is that the perforated headliners used the sail panel.  When the factory changed to the "Yorkshire" material, the sail panels were deleted.  The question is...Did 72's come with the perforated or Yorkshire headliners?

There didn't happen to be any small scraps of headliner attached to the "teeth" by chance?

[dodj]

Darren's probably right, but I did install my perforated headliner on my '73, (I prefer the perforated) without the sail panels and it looks good. Don't think they are really needed.

[challengerx]

same for me, used perforated with no sail panels and looks good.

[burdar]

That's good to know.  I don't think the REM reproduction sail panels fit anyway.

[jetsurgeon]

Thanks guys, I did find a small piece of headliner stuck to the rear interior window moulding, and it was very small, but didn't have any perforations. My car was built in Feb 72, and according to the guy at Legendary, it should be the perforated "Pembroke" style liner. Maybe someone had changed it prior to my aquiring the vehicle, don't know, there wasn't one in the car when I got it. I'm not going to install it myself, going to have it done professionally. The seats on the other hand, just got all new covers from Legendary and am going to attempt those...wish me luck, I am going to have to rebuild all the seat foam by hand, it's all beyond trashed!

[jimynick]

Regarding your doing the seats, I believe there are reproduction seat foams made or you can look for used, but they need to conform to the covers very closely and doing that by hand will be a job. You'll also need a pair of hog ring pliers and hog rings to re-attach the covers to the frames. Good luck