Picked up this 74 Swinger today. Yellow Floral top car

[autoxcuda]

Any idea what V1P could possibly mean then?

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Post your fender tag or rest of your build sheet.

Just guessing... it might be a special trim package that got a special grained or colored top. Like a Spring Special, White Hat special, Topper... They had all kinds of names for trim and sticker packages to help sell cars.

Is your car an S/E also?

Did Dart S/E's have a special padded top?

 

[Thomas H Lirette]

Post your fender tag or rest of your build sheet.

Just guessing... it might be a special trim package that got a special grained or colored top. Like a Spring Special, White Hat special, Topper... They had all kinds of names for trim and sticker packages to help sell cars.

Is your car an S/E also?

Did Dart S/E's have a special padded top?

Hopefully that's clear enough to read.

 

[autoxcuda]

Read 4th paragraph here:

https://www.hamtramck-historical.com/images/vintage-advertising/1974DodgePressRelease/dartse3.jpg

Mentions choice of top grain finishes on either Black or Parchment tops. I wonder if the "P" was for a choice of textured grain top. It's just a guess.

You need to find info given to dealers on how to order a 74 Dart S/E or find someone with that V1P code that still has the original top.

the 1974 Dart S/E was a mid year model. So all that info would not be in the literature published at the beginning of model year.

 

[Thomas H Lirette]

Read 4th paragraph here:

https://www.hamtramck-historical.com/images/vintage-advertising/1974DodgePressRelease/dartse3.jpg

Mentions choice of two grain finished on either Black or Parchment tops. I wonder if the "P" was for a choice of textured grain top. It's just a guess.

You need to find info given to dealers on how to order a 74 Dart S/E or find someone with that V1P code that still has the original top.

the 1974 Dart S/E was a mid year model. So all that info would not be in the literature published at the beginning of model year.

Mines a plymouth scamp but I guess would be the same

 

[Thomas H Lirette]

V19 (special order vinyl roof).
Hold on I forgot something, be right back

Code Is V1P not 9 though

 

[MOPARMAGA]

Code Is V1P not 9 though

Sorry I meant to delete that after I found my dyslexic error

 

[autoxcuda]

Mines a plymouth scamp but I guess would be the same

Good point.

The Plymouth equivalent to a Dart S/E is a Valiant Brougham

....I'm just keep thinking it's part some sort of mid year package.

 

[mbaird]

Yellow with a red top is pretty cool I think .
I ordered a 2019 Acura RDX A-Spec for stock with Blue paint and red leather just because I thought it would be unique. It wa great looking ! Other dealers kept calling to trade for it.

 

[Alaskan_TA]

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That 'P" you mention is in the V6 area - stripes. ;-)

Update - Looking at a copy of the book, no P in that section, just two Rs there. ;-)

No red vinyl tops.

 

[Alaskan_TA]

I would trust a Galen book any day over "Stockmopar.com" Look up mod top on the internet and see what all the sites say. Think what you want. Mopar didn't make any Mod/Floral top cars in 74. Period.

Plenty of mistakes in the books and on that site too. ;-)

 

[toolmanmike]

Plenty of mistakes in the books and on that site too. ;-)

True that. New Years resolution not to comment on these kind of threads.