The black and white pictures I posted are not from an ad. They were in Road Test magazine, and that was a production 1971 340 car. Obviously, no patina on a brand new car.
I don’t try and baffle you. It’s not my fault you’re easily baffled by common sense and basic facts.
As for the rest of it, the assembly manual is a better source of information than you’ll ever be.
Exactly. Like basic common sense. Every one of those hoods was an individual layout, performed by different painters at different plants over the course of a production run where it seems pretty obvious that some changes were made.
Even in the realm of Ma Mopar’s 1970’s production standards that hood blackout following any kind of tight standard is a terrible bet. The individual nature of how that was done would make it one of the least uniform procedures on the assembly line.
That’s like two cars with a metallic paint code painted on different days at different plants being the exact same color. It would be more strange if they DID match exactly.