[Allen]

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That is what Brian and I were thinking on the phone the other night, that the tach dashes seem to have the extra chrome. At this point, it appears to be the only common denominater, and it does not appear to be associated with the interior level of trim - quite strange.

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I did some digging into this. It appears that the bright trim was part of a "special interior" package, which is not the same as the Custom Interior, and doesn't have anything to do with buckets, or tach/gauges, or anything.

According to the dealer ordering price list, the "special interior" was option code ZJ3 and got you:

- Bright pedal trim
- Right side door jamb dome lamp switch
- Bright dome lamp bezel
- Bright trim around instrument bezel (the dash piece we've been discussing)
- Satin finish on back side of rear view mirror
- Glove box light

With that said, I bet we might also find a few examples of bench seat cars and different option mixes having the bright trim. What we are probably seeing is that cars with the option list thrown at it (like the tach and gauges and buckets) were also probably loaded up with little things like that.

My Nova has a bright dome lamp bezel, a non-working glove box lamp, the pedal trim, and everything else. In the car when I bought it was a bright trimmed radio-delete bezel that had been carefully cut out for a radio.