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anyone know what mopar color the charger was?

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There has been much discussion about this on the Mopar boards over the years. Some say "Lemon Twist" yellow, while others say it's some variation of lime green. Most of us now agree it is actually "Curious Yellow," which is a 1971 Mopar color which is more of a neon yellow-green.

Some older prints of the film make it look yellow, but the new DVD makes it pretty clear it is the yellow-green color. This was not a factory color on a '69 Charger however.

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I'm not a Mopar expert, but I remember somewhere reading "Limelight Yellow". Is that a factory Mopar color? If so, what year?

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I think that is the Dodge name for the Plymouth color "Curious Yellow," but I'm not totally sure. I believe that is a 1971-only color.

Love the names that Chrysler gave their high-impact colors back then: "Panther Pink" "Go Mango" "Lemon Twist" and of course "Plum Crazy" (although, the rumor is, the original name for that purple color was "Statuatory Grape...")

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In looking for that colour I have found that plymouth did have "curious yellow" and the dodge division called their version "citron yella". Y3
You're right, '71 only.

http://www.eastcoastmusclecars.net/dodgeplymouthpaintchips/1971-dodge-pc.jpg
http://www.eastcoastmusclecars.net/dodgeplymouthpaintchips/1971-plymouth-pc.jpg

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Limelight was indeed a factory Mopar color. I believe it was used from late '69 to '73 and is most common on the e-bodies. (Challenger,Cudas)

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the color of the car was a light yellow/lime green with no vinyl top, but still retained the chrome trim around the sides of the lower roof lines

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Yeah, I noticed that about the chrome as well. Didn't all Chargers come with that strip?

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Hi Avenger69, most of the 69 chargers came with a vinyl top and the chrome rings around the bottom of the roof fins were there to not only make it look nice ,but to keep the lower part of the vinyl roof material snugged down tight. On the chargers they used and needed they got a few without vinyl tops, these were the base model from the factory and came that way. The R/T had a black vinyl top and so did the 68 charger they used, I got the R/T and owned it until my ex wife totaled it back in 1977, but even though the R/T was supposed to have a 440 Magnum and said 440 on the stripe, it really had a 383 Magnum 4 BBl. I got pictures of the car from the studio crew and the headrests for the front seats were in plastic bags in the trunk, also, the air conditioning didn't work when i got it either, but i fixed it and had the body work done on it the front end, the dents in the roof from the helicopter skids never did go away, you could always see them from an angle like huge dings in the side of a car. i wanted to leave them, but fixed the front end so it was driveable. They used 2 cars for the front end damage i got the one that wasn't as bad as the other charger the damage LOOKS almost the same, but it was different from car to car.the body shop matched the paint, and it came from the 1971 mopar colors that were availble from the factory. it looked light bright green to bright pale yellow depending how the light shined on it. I wish i still had that car.

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The cars that came from the factory without vinyl tops should not have the stainless trim at the belt-line of the C-pillars (rear quarters). A lot of the Chargers on the Dukes of Hazzard have the trim srtips there also. They just used cars that originally came with vinyl tops and left the trim there.

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I am totally awestruck you owned the actual Charger - that car has been a dream machine of mine since I was at school.






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