I owned a 70 Gran Coupe for more than 20 years. Gran Coupes rule to me, as I really hate seeing Gran Coupes turned into AAR's or just another shaker 6bbl. conversion. By the time those who choose to clone their Gran Coupe to a AAR they spent just as much on the complete restoration as it would be on a real J code ride & if the time & money for that car is there to purchase. Seriously, I am ALL for keeping it a Gran Coupe with the badging & such. Here's what I did to my 70 G code Gran Coupe back in the mid 1980's, when parts were readly available at salvage yards & cheap newspaper deals that you ran out of your house with a fist full of cash before the next guy to get that car. I made my Gran Coupe looks like a 70 'Cuda 340, adding a 70 scooped hood, red line trim in the grille (all 3 pieces), road lamps, louvered rocker panel covers, blacked out the tailight panel & added the 4 piece surround trim, repop wing, dual exhaust valance & the tips as well to finish it off. Since I swapped a 340 later in life, I had a Tiger in a sheeps clothing. The car looked just like a Cuda 340, BUT I retained the Gran Coupe badges! I had 340 MAGNUM on the hood though, instead of cuda 340. My car was originally green with green interior, but the interior was really raty when I got the car, so I swapped out whatever black interior E body parts I could find, incluidng recovering the headliner. I added whatever I could inside the car of options I could find, including POwer windows, 6-way, defogger & map light. I retained the standard dash until 5 years before I sold it, useing a real 70 Ralley dash & made my underdash wiring into a rally dash harness (my tach wire was a story in it own, I used correct color wire & ran it in & out of the firewalls original socket location) Someone painted the car white before I got it, so I retained it white, still don;t why I did that but oh well, life goes on. My point: Your keeping it a Gran Coupe & thats 112% cool. I kept mine a Gran Coupe. The more we all keep Gran Coupes the better. Someday I will be able to finish my 72 cuda project & I will make this one my own as well, but I have a Gran Coupe headliner & ALL the right wiring to put it in my 72. NO it will not be a 72 Gran Coupe, it will be my 72 Barracuda 360 automatic driver car.
