[Lynn]

Brian:

Not saying that what you report above isn't true. I would like to see contemporary articles from newspapers etc. Car mags from the 70'a are a horrible source. They printed all kinds of stupid things about the muscle car era.

I realize this is the tiniest piece of the puzzle, but if GM agreed to discontinue the four clip desing in the summer of 69, how does that explain a four clip desing trim ring for an FW coded wheel that wasn't made for another year? Perhaps, just perhaps, that 4 clip ring that is a perfect fit on the FW wheel also fits a pre 69 wheel, but I don't have a collection of every ralley wheel made during the 60's check it on.

If you could dig up your old research and get a contemporaneous news article or a case number (or numbers, if they were consolidated) that would be a great start.

There was more than one way these things could come down. During the 70's we had a rash of Buick Century's come in with a customer complaint of low volume of air output just one of the a/c registers. The other registers were fine. One of the techs (fancy word for mechanic) came up with a fix whereby we could epoxy a small piece of plastic onto on of the other ducts and it would divert air towards the one that had been low on air flow. The zone rep gave us to OK to do it on any Century that we received with that complaint, and agreed on the flat rate compensation for the tech. The agreement was that we didn't solict the work, but only cured it if the customer complained. Now, I am pretty sure that the air flow fix didn't ever become a nationwide campaign. If it was, there would be some paper trail. I would expect there to be something that survives today about trim ring issues.

Any help sharing your research would be greatly appreciated.