That guide is for the dealers, not prospective buyers. I believe Chrysler cranked those cars out ASAP, to get them homologated...

In Response To: You may have been able to do a "stripe delete" on a T/A Challenger. I'll bet nobody ever did that though. Here is a link to a '70 Dodge factory ordering guide. They don't mention the colors or the stripes though. *NM* *LINK* ()

...years ago, one of the muscle car magazines had a special TA/AAR only issue. They featured a number of one-owner cars, as I recall none were ordered by their owners. All were bought off the lot. One guy priced a Hemi 'Cuda only to have to tell the dealer he couldn't get insurance on one. Dealer called him later the same day: "we got two of these AAR 'Cudas in today, maybe you'd be interested in this". Chrysler probably had to crash those things out and get X number of them onto dealers' lots in order to get them homologated for the Trans-Am series with the special hoods and spoilers.
Same deal a few years earlier, with the '66 "D/Darts". Only they didn't have to make as many of those, and dealers bought all of them to race. One of the Mopar magazines researched those, they couldn't find anyone who actually ordered one. The long-time owners they ran into didn't get their cars new, they bought them from dealers that had campaigned them at the drags.
--Mark

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What's a good site to find out what body colors the 1970 Challenger T/A's came in? *NM*
- Google wasn't being very nice to me. I finally dug pass the ads at the top of their list (very annoying). Now to narrow down my choices. So many nice colors... more inside
  - You may have been able to do a "stripe delete" on a T/A Challenger. I'll bet nobody ever did that though. Here is a link to a '70 Dodge factory ordering guide. They don't mention the colors or the stripes though. *NM* *LINK*
    - Here are all the colors. Real cars, not theoretical. *NM* *LINK*
    - That guide is for the dealers, not prospective buyers. I believe Chrysler cranked those cars out ASAP, to get them homologated...
      - Mark, I believe you are totally correct. Chrysler just built them whatever way was the fastest. You went to the dealer and just bought whatever they had. *NM*
- I found this information on Google concerning the stripe delete on the 1970 Dodge Challenger T/A. .......... *PICS* ..........
  - Here you go! *NM* *PIC*
    - Oops, that isn't a T/A. Well you don't see tons of R/Ts w/out the stripes either. *NM*