70 Challenger Hood

[ply64post]

On 70 Challenger steel hoods they  had the Dodge lettering on the front edge of the hood.Correct me
if I am wrong, the early production cars had no lettering and later production did, Was there production
change and when? The Challenger has a build date of 9-17-69 and also when was the break for the crumple  structure changed? Did the Shaker, Rallye, and flat hoods have this feature?

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[Blowout]

  mine was built 10/69 so I'm curious because my hood has holes and it seemed like the hood that came with it.

[mtull]

I have two hoods, both are from Sept 11, 1969 cars (based on original door stickers).  Both have the factory holes for DODGE lettering.  If it matters I can get the die-lot stamp numbers on the hoods.  I do recall one number was: 00000000 

[MoparLeo]

Crumple zone in 71 +

[EV2RTSE]

Can't recall ever seeing or hearing of a 70 hood that didn't have either the DODGE letters or fratzog emblem on the front.  71 is another story. 

[erik70rt]

Can't recall ever seeing or hearing of a 70 hood that didn't have either the DODGE letters or fratzog emblem on the front.  71 is another story. 

71 was the only year they didn't use the DODGE lettering.