really, those fenders emblems are originals to fenders.
I don't think a SURVIVOR car would it be down the SURVIVOR tent at Carlisle if they werern't originals on it... or yes ?
I think it would all depend on what criteria the person(s) placing the cars into the "Survivor Tent" was using:
Was he just basically using what he had been led to believe as a basis for his "judgement" that the car was an "all original survivor"?
I would very much like to see his (or anyone's) documentation--any REAL PROOF--that proves the smaller 440 magnum badge on the fender is
original.
In the town of 50,000 people where I grew up and bought my
new and original from the factory 72 SE U car,
there were at least 5 other 71 and/or 72 Chargers with 440 HP (magnums) in them from the factory,
making for a total of 6 :
2 were "sales bank" cars from the local dealer, and the 4 others were shipped over from other dealers outside the area...
and none of them, I repeat:
NONE of them had a 440 Magnum badge on the fender!I had never even seen one until more or less recently when the restoring/refurbishing of 3rd Gens started becoming more popular.
I'm sticking with my belief that it all comes down from one guy thinking it was cool to add a smaller engine "call out" badge
to his car (nowhere to put it on a flat hood?) by placing it under the Charger fender script badge, thereby allowing
it to be seen from the side as he is driving by...
(At least the idea that they came from the E-body shakers would
explain why they are smaller than the original hood badges.)
And until someone--anyone--can show me documentation--that is not subject to human error--that a car actually came from the factory like
that, I will continue to hold to my belief!!
Note the "440 Magnum" badge on the fender of my 1st Gen....I
absolutely guarantee that it was an "add-on" since the car was
originally a 361...someone simply wanted people to know there was now a 440 magnum under the hood, and had no other place
to position a "call-out" to that effect:....
(PLEASE IGNORE THE MALE MODEL ;D)
Sorry Nacho, but just the simple fact that some guy waved his scepter and deemed a car "an original survivor" at a car show does not equal documentation proof in my book!!
Please don't get me wrong...There's nothing I would like better than to put a set of those "mini" badges on my blue car, and then be able to tell people that they were factory and would not show up on the build sheet or fender tag (of which I have both).
But as it stands right now a statement like that would--at least
to me--be borderline (if not downright) dishonesty!!
Soooooo.....convince me otherwise!! ;D
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