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I think I mentioned this awhile back, but several
things here:
1. not everything you see in a AMC factory color
catalog made it to production. I could give over 12 instances in the 1973
catalog alone. In other words, what you saw might not be what you got. It is
called running production changes and is covered somewhere on my
site.
2. you have different versions of NOS this and
that. Same part number but could be superceded by other part
numbers.
3. you have different versions of this and that
again, I could give you 5 instances of different types of NOS 68-69 AMX grilles
for instance. All same part number....however made at different times..BY
DIFFERENT SUPPLIERS to AMC! This is also covered somewhere on my site as I got
tired of answering questions about what color the red rear reflector lens should
be or was. It depended who made it. In other words, there are different shades
on the red lens, all red, but different shades. Better way to look at it is AMC
had a wide variety of paint suppliers. Same codes, but I guarantee you subtle
differences in the paint. You put a chip from each companies same say, big
bad green paint under paint reader at auto paint supplier (or even Home Depot)
and you will have differences on how it was made up. Not see with normal eye but
different.
Not sure this helps, or adds gasahol (or nasa space
daipers) to conversation. Now back to emails, down to only 400
left.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 5:33
PM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Grill
Colors
Ok, lets try this another way. I think the 'new' question is...What color
is the inner section that would normaly be called the grille? On '70.5 thru
'73 the grille and the headlight surround section were all one piece. On the
years with an X model available the grille surround section was painted the
color of the car and the inner section (where the air gets thru to the
radiator was painted flat black or a satin black with a double pinstripe the
color of the side body stripe outlining it. All other models the grille
surround was a silver gray and the inner section was a darker gray with no
pinstripe around it. Starting in late '73 AMC changed the front
grille/headlight surround to a three piece unit and these are not involved in
the original question. Hope this helps. Gary 'TheMix2'
-----Original Message-----
From:
martin-davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent:
Fri, 23 Feb 2007 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Grill
Colors
Terry,
If you go to the Year Models link at the top of the gremlinx.com
sight, it lists each year 70-78 and there is a factory brosure picture of each
one. Every one shows the X mode, and from 72 to 76 you can clearly see that
the grille is body color. The X package wasn't available till 72. I don't
really know much about the 77-78 models. I have concentrated on 70-76 for the
last 20 years. It is always best to look at factory info when looking for this
sort of info and not readers rides or cars at shows.
Davis
twa1950@yahoo.com
wrote:
OK I have a dumb question. I looked at the site you gave me and if you
read the differences between the X and the plain Gremlin it says the Grill
was color coordinated. Question were the grills suppose to be the same color
as the car or did they have silver on the cross members. I looked at all the
pictures of the cars and granted there are quite a few that aren't X's on
there but either I am color blind or I just don't see them being the same
color as the car. Even the guy's who runs the site has a silver grill in his
car. Not that it really matters but I must be missing something.
Terry
Davis Martin
<martin-davis@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Thank you Sir ![]() Robert
<baddassgremlin@aol.com> wrote:
Ok, I dug through my stuff and found my original 1973 sales
brochure.
In print it states the color coordinated grill came with
the "X"
package. After reading everything on standard and optional
equipment
that came with the 1973 Gremlin, it never mentions
anything about
the "silver" grill. So, Davis, I would say that you
are correct in your
comment about the dealers putting the cheaper
"silver" grill on cars
that might have had the original grill broken
before they were sold.
Thanks, Bob in
MN.
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