[judgethis]

I was going thru my trim pieces and found two types of center trim pieces for the trunk lid. you can see the one has cut outs and the tabs are in different locations. Did they make two or is this for a different car altogether? The top one came off my deck lid. Not sure where the bottom on came from but I have two of them.

[marxjunk]

early and late..dont know which but i remember a diff

[GTO JOHN]

Interesting, I never noticed these differences. I will check in my box of trim and see if I have any different ones.

[marxjunk]

one is on the early lid..the other is on the lid that takes the spoiler...i just cant remeber which..ive pulled both..i have both..but never looked at a date on the car

[north]

I've seen both over the years but I think it was more a case of different suppliers as I've seen both versions on both early and late cars.

Between my friends GTO's and my GTO's and LeMans' I have 5 examples I can look at.

[marxjunk]

notice the one tab is in a diff spot...the decklid had a diff inner structure

[north]

Stumbled across this old thread. I’ve now got seven 69 GTO’s and LeMans’ with original trunk lids. I’ll post a listing of the plant-date and which version they have as soon as I study them all.

[north]

studied the 8 GTO’s and LeMans’ that have original trunklids and moldings. Here is the evident pattern…
1… the first center molding version has a uniform inner flange width and the center tab is quite a bit far from center. It was used from start of production until about the end of December 68.
2…the second version of the molding has a narrower inner flange width on the passenger side and the center tab was much closer to the center of the molding. It was used from about the start of January 69.

This combined with the early and late trunklids means there were three different combinations. The 2nd version trunklid came out sometime in November 68. So the early trunklids could use either molding but the 2nd (judge ready) trunklid only used the 2nd version molding. By the way, all this means that all judges would use the 2nd version molding.

Last point, some plants seem to have built GTO’s (and LeMans’) without any trunk moldings very late in the 69 model year. I’ve definitely seen home plant GTO’s built without those moldings and I’ve seen Fremont and Arlington cars with the moldings right up to the last week of production. I haven’t seen enough late production goats from Baltimore, Atlanta or Framingham to know if they built moldingless cars.