E-Bodies.org Cuda Challenger Forum

Here is a close up of the texture on my 71 Gran Coupe.  This car is fairly original with about roughly 70% of the body paint still original including the tail panel.  I've also included a picture showing the underside of the trunk lid while it's a little hard to tell but you can see where the texture got oversprayed on the underside of the trunk lid.

Since this paint was applied at the assembly plant I would say that when new it was probably slightly different from the shaker scoops and grilles as they were painted at suppliers to Chrysler and I suspect due to the nature of this paint there were slight variations.  If I were to repaint this or do another Gran Coupe I would most likely use the Roger Gibson 70/71 Cuda grille paint and use all three stages.  I've used this paint to refinish the upper and lower grille on the 71 Cuda I am redoing right now but only used #1 and #3 as #2 contains the square flecks of texture that most 71 grilles didn't have.