Kool Pic Dodge Daytona's At The Dealership

[RIDGERACER383]

I found this kool pic thought I would share it.Enjoy.

[Ghoste]

Isn't that from the back lot at Creative Industries?

[RIDGERACER383]

I have no idea.Just saw the pic and grabbed it.

[472 R/T SE]

Did the factory not put grills in the '69's? 

That car up top in the middle is showing it's headlights but it's hard to tell if there's a grill in there.  I realize the 8's & 9's vacuum system & the doors' came open, but in that pic it's hard to see a grill.

[Ghoste]

It is hard to tell but it kind of looks to me like a grille might be there. 

[kikgas01]

Look at the paint on some of them.

[RIDGERACER383]

It does have a regular hood on it..It looks like a 68.

[bill440rt]

Did the factory not put grills in the '69's? 

That car up top in the middle is showing it's headlights but it's hard to tell if there's a grill in there.  I realize the 8's & 9's vacuum system & the doors' came open, but in that pic it's hard to see a grill.

Look closely at the Charger behind it. No grille in that one, either. Well... at least the headlight door is open. Coincidence? 

[472 R/T SE]

No door, no grill 

Why even put headlights in them...unless they transferred them to the nose cone?

How much of the car could they have left off & still be able to transport over to Creative?

[Patronus]

Those are those funny wingamabobs from Chrysler from back in the day. Never be worth nuttin'..

[hatersaurusrex]

No door, no grill 

Why even put headlights in them...unless they transferred them to the nose cone?

How much of the car could they have left off & still be able to transport over to Creative?

I thought the same thing, but using that logic why put the bumper on there either?  Maybe they needed to be roadworthy and were driven over?

[Ghoste]

There were some pics here once that were inside Creative but I can't recall for sure now if there were grilles leaning against the wall or not.  I would think the bumper would be one of the last things installed on the assembly line but they would be able to add or delete most anything (such as a grille) they wanted on the line.  As long as they could load them on the truck they would be fine, there wouldn't be any "roadworthy" requirements at that point.  They didn't drive them to Creative, it was in the Detroit Metro area but still 20 minutes from the plant.

[Ghoste]

Looks here like bumpers and grilles were on when the body was lowered over the engine.  The headlight doors are all open.  Of course they haven't had vacuum applied to them yet either.

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,55515.0.html

[hemigeno]

The Daytonas were made as complete cars by Hamtramck, minus the grille assembly.  You can see bumpers, valance/turn signals, and headlights in the car - but no grille or headlight doors.

Simply put, Chrysler built a complete car with every bit of DOT safety equipment on the car for which it was responsible to install.  They also installed other non-safety-related equipment that was needed to protect the car from exposure to the elements, which is why you see rear glass mouldings and the rear glass itself, etc.

This and the other related photos have been floating around the internet a while, but I do like looking at them.

[Ghoste]

Cool, thanks Gene!  (I was hoping one of you experts would chime in soon)

[odcics2]

FYI - all those Creative shots floated out of my file cabinet!   I have a TON of factory photos, but since Web Pirates take them, manipulate them, and sell them on ebay, well, I don't post them any more...    (Baker and Glotzbach on the wing of DC-93 at Chelsea with Buddy's foot dangling is an example)

I especially didn't like Randy Owens grabbing photos off of the Aerowarrior site that I gave to Ken Noffsinger and re-posting on cottonowens.com and claiming a copyright on them.  He poached a lot of them, too.     

[Ghoste]

Thats low, really low.

[nascarxx29]

Those are the creative industries back lot before cars were shipped to dealer theres a small amout of actual wingcars on the lots back in the day.As we were told many sat unsold

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,47587.msg520062.html#msg520062
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,79356.0.html

[nascarxx29]

Of 10 pages of vintage dealerships on this forum seen 2 birds and 1 Y2 daytona at the dealer

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[tan top]

FYI - all those Creative shots floated out of my file cabinet!   I have a TON of factory photos, but since Web Pirates take them, manipulate them, and sell them on ebay, well, I don't post them any more...    (Baker and Glotzbach on the wing of DC-93 at Chelsea with Buddy's foot dangling is an example)

I especially didn't like Randy Owens grabbing photos off of the Aerowarrior site that I gave to Ken Noffsinger and re-posting on cottonowens.com and claiming a copyright on them.  He poached a lot of them, too.    

,  the audacity of some people  to do something like that  
& spoil it for those who love seeing old back in the day any dealer / factory /racing pictures etc ,  

Thats low, really low.

yeah  ,

[A383Wing]

It does have a regular hood on it..It looks like a 68.

there should not be a 68 in that pic

Bryan

[nascarxx29]

  You can watermark your picture reference material with clear plastic overlay durng a scan.And share whatever .I dont mind seeing my ads or material republished .In Gregs K case they should acknowledge credits of source as done here.Greg K And Anthony Young were the source of daytona shipments

http://mopardealer.com/test.htm

[1970Moparmann]

I found the cat!

[472 R/T SE]

As long as they could load them on the truck they would be fine, there wouldn't be any "roadworthy" requirements at that point.  They didn't drive them to Creative, it was in the Detroit Metro area but still 20 minutes from the plant.

That's why I said transport & not drive.   
Although I've heard that driving them off the assembly line to the storage area was done rather quickly if say 2 A12 cars were going out at the same time.




Thanks Geno.  I figured enough "deer in the headlight" questions would shake loose an expert.

May I ask, considering rad. support paint, was it just the Daytonas' that had black out on the vertical top part of the support? 
I don't seem to remember seeing 'birds done that way.

[tan top]

You can watermark your picture reference material with clear plastic overlay durng a scan.And share whatever .I dont mind seeing my ads or material republished .In Gregs K case they should acknowledge credits of source as done here.Greg K And Anthony Young were the source of daytona shipments

http://mopardealer.com/test.htm

good link thanks for posting