Tail stripe with body side moldings. What would you do?

What would you do?

  • Tail stripe with moldings

    Votes: 2 15.4%

  • No tail stripe, moldings only

    Votes: 11 84.6%
  • Total voters
    13
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DartGTDan

DartGTDan

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My '71 Dart GT had the factory installed body side moldings that were removed by one of the previous owners. The previous previous owner had the car repainted and added the "glue on" body side moldings again. I'd like to add the '70 style gloss black tail stripe, but I'm afraid it'll look goofy with the "glue on" moldings. The paint below the moldings is discolored and damaged (from the glue), so I can't remove the moldings. I cannot afford a paint job.
 
Try google image search, see if you can find other cars in similar situations to see how they do?
 
Personally I would not do the tail stripe with the side moldings in place.
I’ve seen some done that way and it always looks goofy

Just my 2 cents
 
Save the stripe money & start a savings account for a future paint job.

You would have to remove them anyway to paint the car, so waste of time & money for something that would look goofy anyway.
 
Rule #1 Don't put a stripe where it does not belong...
You don't want people talking behind your back.
 
694spd said:
Rule #1 Don't put a stripe where it does not belong...
You don't want people talking behind your back.
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While I personally agree that the tail stripe won’t look good with the side moldings, this is a lousy reason to not do it.

Who cares if people talk behind your back? It’s your car, do whatever you want. If I worried about “people talking” I couldn’t have done most of the biggest improvements to the handling of my car. Which is what I wanted, not a bunch of happy purists that I don’t know and don’t care to.

Don’t build your car to please anybody else. Build the car you want. If that means putting a stripe on it that it wouldn’t have had from the factory, rock on. If other people don’t like it, they can buy their own car and do it different.
 
Either way do it how you want, its your car man, enjoy it!

Do you have a picture of your car currently?
 
I'm assuming your molding is thin like the factory. We did what your talking about to a buddies car. The paint wasn't that great so we figured what the heck. Once it was done it didn't look to bad. The stripe added more than the molding took away. Those stripes add so much to those cars its a win in my book. Of course that's JMO.
 
72bluNblu said:
While I personally agree that the tail stripe won’t look good with the side moldings, this is a lousy reason to not do it.

Who cares if people talk behind your back? It’s your car, do whatever you want. If I worried about “people talking” I couldn’t have done most of the biggest improvements to the handling of my car. Which is what I wanted, not a bunch of happy purists that I don’t know and don’t care to.

Don’t build your car to please anybody else. Build the car you want. If that means putting a stripe on it that it wouldn’t have had from the factory, rock on. If other people don’t like it, they can buy their own car and do it different.
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"who cares?" It sounds like the OP cares what people think, otherwise he would not want know the opinions of others. If I was out somewhere with one of my cars and I over heard something like " boy, what he did to that car sure looks lame" well it would bother me.
Improving the handling is really a whole different thing. The OP sounds like he really wants a stripe on the car, but he is concerned about the looks given that the car has the side body molding.
I have seen a 66 Dodge Charge and a 67 Coronet station wagon with the 1968 bumblebee stripes on then and the thought that entered my mined was " boy, that sure looks lame"
 
71DodgeDemon340 said:
Either way do it how you want, its your car man, enjoy it!

Do you have a picture of your car currently?
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Here's a fall photo:

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I'm not concerned that the tail stripe was not an available option for my model & year, as I've made many cosmetic changes to my car (the '70 (vs. '71 dark argent) style Rallye wheels, '70 twin hood scoops, '69 Charger flip-top gas cap) as well as many non-cosmetic changes (SSBC disc brakes, MP electronic ignition, Auto Meter Z-Series gauges, etc...).
 
In '72 I made my own side stripe and added it along the side molding. Don't think it looked too bad.
Not sure about the tail stripe. But, as others have said , do it your way.
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Based on your user name......

Dart GT models are not a common sight.

If it is one, how many still exist that have not been altered?
 
Alaskan_TA said:
Based on your user name......

Dart GT models are not a common sight.

If it is one, how many still exist that have not been altered?
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Alaskan_TA yes, it is a real '71 GT (A65 on the fender tag). According to all of my research it is 1 of ~1255 GTs for 1971 (Chrysler historical told me ~1.3% of the ~96,*** Darts produced for '71 were the GT model (all their records were destroyed in a fire)). Is it rare? Kind of. Is it valuable? It's basically a Swinger with bucket seats/console and Dart GT emblems on the rocker panels under the door. Nearly every other GT I know of has been "modified".
 
Hopefully someone has one that is willing to keep it as is with no modifications for the sake of history?

That is what lead me to start saving 4-doors, a respect for history.
 
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