how rare is blue

[1972Rallye]

hemitom said:

you might not have the answer but im going to ask anywhay....
out of the 20964 SE's does anyone know how meny were built with the Broughm package or at least with out???

Most of the SE's were A76 Brougham package cars... 15555 of 20964 (74.2%).

[Nacho-RT74]

I'm wondering the same about 73/74 Hardtops with brougham package!!!

[DynoDave]

1972rallye said:

hemitom said:

yea that is the color....thats what im trying to find out...for the 72 model year....how rare is it? out of the 22,xxx 72 SE's mine is the only one that ive seen. all the others were either Black,Green,White Dark Blue..

Of 20964 '72 SE's made, approx 1237 or 5.9% were HB1

Here's a list of the colors and their production numbers for '72 SE only:
GA4 Light Gunmetal........7.5% / 1572 units
HB1 Light Blue.................5.9% / 1237 units
TB3 Super Blue................4.3% / 901 units
GB5 Bright Blue Met.........7.7% / 1614 units
FE5 Red...........................6.5% / 1363 units
GF3 Light Green Met........6.8% / 1426 units
JF5 Green Gold Met..........0.1% / 21 units (Late model year intro)
GF7 Dark Green Met.......10.9% / 2285 units
HT6 Med Tan Met..............1.3% / 273 units
HT8 Dark Tan Met ............4.3% / 901 units
EV2 Hemi Orange.............2.7% / 566 units
EW1 Eggshell White........4.8% / 1006 units
TX9 Black.........................4.7% / 985 units
FY1 Top ...............2.3% / 482 units
GY4 Light Gold..................8.9% / 1866 units
GY8 Gold Met....................7.9% / 1656 units
GY9 Dark Gold Met..........13.0% / 2725 units

How cool!

[Hemitom]

ok then...why is it sooo hard to find a pair of Broughm door panels?? 25.8% of the SE chargers did not have the A76 package.that means that 5409 charger SE 's are more rarer than the others.

[Hemitom]

i guess no one has an answer to my mind bongling question...ugh??? :lol

[Nacho-RT74]

maybe because 72 SE parts are not common to find with ANY package.

[brock]

Hemitom, 5409SE (non Brougham) + hardtop + coupe = more than 60,000 regular panels. Yeah,
I need a calculator & to open a few other pages on this site to be more specific - but with 15,000
or so Broughams (minus attrition) your panels are out there. With the right search saved on EBay
it only takes 5 minutes a day to key an eye out for them. They'll come!

[Jer]

nachort74 said:

maybe because 72 SE parts are not common to find with ANY package.

Nacho hit it right on the head! A lot of 72 SE specific parts are tough to locate, take it from someone who's smack in the middle of several parts-specific searches--look how long it took to find those damn SE chrome taillight bezels and seat release buttons!

When you're talking about something like 72 SE Brougham upper door panels, you're narrowing it down even more....73/74's won't fit 72 doors, and 71's are totally different (in fact there's a set of 71's that are on Ebay right now...gun metal gray.)

"Standard" 72 SE upper door panels (with the wide woodgrain) are at least out there and being traded AND repopped (at over 200 bucks a set), but SE Brougham panels are as scarce as hen's teeth, and it's very rare to find them, much less find someone who wants to trade or sell them.

I got lucky (bless you Brock), but only after a very long search, during which I even
bought a set of 73's (which I still have)...this was how I learned the
hard way that they won't fit on a 72 door.

And just to stay on the original topic of the post, my car is one of the 5.9% (1237) in HB1 Light Blue...for now!! ;D ;D



THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!!
#BBbad# #BBbad# #BBbad# #BBbad#


Jer.

[brock]

All I can figure in explaining why 72 parts seem scarce is that many people believe 71 is the last
year for muscle. I've had several people say so & they go so far as to say that 72 up has no worth
or is junk. I call it the GM personna - they look at what they think of GM in 72 & try to apply it to
MoPar. Maybe that many were scrapped I sure hope not

The light blue just doesn't do it for me, Hemitom. I had planned on Black with a White vinyl top;
because it looked so good on my first 70 Charger R/T. Now that another has chosen that combo
I'll probably leave the vinyl top off & go strait black. Somethin, I say somethin in my stable is
gonna be black