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Originally Posted by Alex Denysenko
my eyes and my really good memory
NEXT TIME YOU RUN INTO Norm or Lennie Krause ask them Norm will tell you that they would have ordered hundreds of them as it was the T/A's wetre almost sale proof, because they were so slow and cost too much
of all places GSD would have been the one to order cars with those hoods right up the street wsd grand central Chrysler Plymouth which delivered at least half a dozen SS 68 HEMI CUDAS same deal only 70AAR CUDAS had the glass hoods no hemis or six pack RB wedges
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Look, all I'm stating is the hood was an option on the R/T Challengers. I know of two R/Ts that had the glass hoods from the plant as documented by the data plate and broadcast sheet.
I'm not implying 100's of Challenger came rolling off the Dodge Main assembly line with the glass hood.
I also know there was an issue with the hood supplier in Windsor, Ontario when the '71 T/A Challenger was cancelled in late '70 (none were built obviously). The supplier still had some inventory levels for service after Mopar cancelled their PO.
Remember, marketing materials get printed months before the introduction of the new model year and are not always accurate at the time of printing (the '72 Plymouth Dealer Data shows the 440 6BBL option for Road Runner).
And, I have the "Get Out of Jail letter" from Tom Hoover and Dick Maxwell to NHRA from May of 1970 stating the glass hood was an available option.
So, you may have worked for Mr. Norms and that's great but I've lived in Detroit my whole life and have been imbedded within the Chrysler community. I've interviewed everyone from the guys on the line who built these cars to Tom Hoover who ran the Chrysler Race program back in the day.
And...I spent 10 years at Chrysler researching these cars in the archives.
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