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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 70 copo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">&quot;Replacing the wrong grill in those days was not a high priority for us, we typically sent that on to the dealer as a minor defect&quot;</div></div>

So it was then past onto the dealership to correct it.That jives with what I've learned from former salesman back then.And they usually didn't care unless the customer spoke up about it,which was almost never.

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Exactly.

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I must admit reading this thread has been an education. Keep it coming!

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Never discount human error on a manufacture production line. And i am sure there were plenty of factory mistakes.

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I would have to think that on more than a few occasions a factory anomaly managed to slip by the inspectors and make it to a customer.

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Per a supervisor on the Ford assembly lines in the '60s and '70s: You kept the line going but couldn't downgrade a part. An example he gave was that it was OK to put a large battery tray (and even a larger HD battery) into a car if you ran out of small battery trays, but you couldn't put a small battery tray into a car that was supposed to be fitted with a large one. Another example would be to put a nicer steering wheel into a base model car, but not vice versa. I would think that a black vs. argent grille would be considered an equivalent part that would be an acceptable substitute (not requiring rework) if GM had a similar policy.

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It does a bit of a disservice to the originality portion of the discussion when normalitive practice takes priority over originality. With each consensious car that is created a bit more history is lost.

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Nothing anyone has stated proves <span style="font-style: italic">that</span> car was built that way.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: William</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Nothing anyone has stated proves <span style="font-style: italic">that</span> car was built that way. </div></div>

Correct. But the so called black grill myth that you are making reference to has a basis as an assembly line mistake.

What we have then is first hand knowledge from the line that it did happen.

The better question is why not this specific car then? It's a great car by any measure why not focus on the good stuff?

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Phil...What we have <span style="font-weight: bold">here</span> is not first hand knowledge. It is being told to us by you saying a guy you know said he worked on the line. Doesn't mean it isn't correct but it can't really be positively relied upon. It could have come off the line that way but I would sure like to look at it up close.