stainless rocker moldings
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You do know they are plastic right? There were some 'stainless' rocker moldings made but if you did have that for some reason (probably not) it would be very costly to re-acquire b/c that was one of the rarest things of all. Hard to come by a whole set of moldings, they are not re-manufactured. You will have to get them on here used, find a set on ebay, or buy the pieces separately one at a time. The clips to reinstall them are on www.gbodyparts.com if you do find. The 'fillers' to eliminate them are on there too. If you can't find a parts car or a junkyard full of G's nearby, the choice to give in and eliminate the chromes might be the way to go. I have two g's right now, both with chrome. I plan to eliminate on one and use the spares for the other. Each car is different but you might notice if you zoom in and read up on some user's cars on here, many cars including this years g-body of the year have tastefully deleted chrome rockers w/ decent results.
I did not realize they were plastic. Back when I first painted the car I didn't like the look and eliminated all the chrome moldings. Now that I am repainting it I figured I'd try to add the rocker moldings back on to prevent all the stone chips. If I Dnt find a set it won't ruin my day. Just thought I'd look around and c if I get lucky. Already called all the junk yards within a hr drive from my place
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I might be thinking of the wrong thing, but I've never seen plastic rocker moldings. The only ones I know of on the Regal were stainless and they are 3 pieces per side; a short section on the 1/4's behind the doors, the lower door sections, and the actual rocker sections that wrap up into the lower front fenders. The clips that hold the door sections are plastic. But there are metal stud clips on either end with nuts. I think the base models may have had a thin strip available, but I haven't seen that version in a long time.
There is a salvage yard that had 50+ G-bodies not long ago, and 2-3 Regals that I tried to get the moldings off of because they looked better than mine. It seems like many were sold/crushed, and also the last time I was there my Regal was broken into and vandalized for no apparent reason. Southern Delaware, so it would be a 8hr. ride from Erie (I'm originally from that area). There's another one sitting in the impound lot at a performance engine builder/service shop that looks abandoned too.
There was a Regal just like mine in a salvage yard outside of Brookville years ago. I was looking for a front corner lamp at the time when we went back for Thanksgiving (it didn't have it. I don't remember the name of the yard, possibly Christini's, but the car is probably gone by now (that was around 2006-2007). You might have better luck at a yard called Chapman's near Dubois, which we visited a day earlier. Looks like they have a website now, http://www.chapmanautoparts.com/ . That place was huge, and was actually mainly older cars. Several G-bodies, including a blue '85 or '86 442 t-top car, which didn't seem to be in too bad of shape at all, but had no wheels, engine, and of course the t-tops were gone/off, and the interior too, didn't look bad, but the seats were soaked. Very odd as the paint looked original/shiny and no/very little rust (western PA!?). All the Regals either didn't have header panels or were '81-'83 models with different headlight bezels/corner lamps, so they didn't do me any good.
There is a salvage yard that had 50+ G-bodies not long ago, and 2-3 Regals that I tried to get the moldings off of because they looked better than mine. It seems like many were sold/crushed, and also the last time I was there my Regal was broken into and vandalized for no apparent reason. Southern Delaware, so it would be a 8hr. ride from Erie (I'm originally from that area). There's another one sitting in the impound lot at a performance engine builder/service shop that looks abandoned too.
There was a Regal just like mine in a salvage yard outside of Brookville years ago. I was looking for a front corner lamp at the time when we went back for Thanksgiving (it didn't have it. I don't remember the name of the yard, possibly Christini's, but the car is probably gone by now (that was around 2006-2007). You might have better luck at a yard called Chapman's near Dubois, which we visited a day earlier. Looks like they have a website now, http://www.chapmanautoparts.com/ . That place was huge, and was actually mainly older cars. Several G-bodies, including a blue '85 or '86 442 t-top car, which didn't seem to be in too bad of shape at all, but had no wheels, engine, and of course the t-tops were gone/off, and the interior too, didn't look bad, but the seats were soaked. Very odd as the paint looked original/shiny and no/very little rust (western PA!?). All the Regals either didn't have header panels or were '81-'83 models with different headlight bezels/corner lamps, so they didn't do me any good.
The link didn't work or you used their online search for parts? I highly doubt they would have any of that stuff categorized. There was even a '70 GTO/Lemans convertible there at the time and some first generation Camaros.
My Regal is a Limited with all those moldings and they are stainless steel. I didn't know they were rare until now.
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Not rare in any way, but getting harder to find. Like most of the older Regals, when they get redone, these usually get stripped off for various reasons. Then thrown away. You end up seeing more turbo Regals and hot rodded non-turbo cars fixed up so it seems like there weren't many made with them.
It's kind of like olive green Mopars from the late 60's-70's. When they were new, 75% of the cars were either F7 or F8 green (or B5 blue). But now when Challengers or whatever get restored, their all repainted some shade of high impact with R/T emblems and decals color leaving people to believe green wasn't a popular color. Or that Chrysler put something other than big blocks or Hemi's in anything.
Oh that really sucks that you most likely did have the real deal chrome and threw it out. I feel your pain. The other day I left a panel to relocate a power antenna on 79mc outside and a scrapper stole it. Just a few days later I finally saw somebody asking if somebody has this panel and I felt really bad lol. I mean, whats he going to use instead now if someone else doesn't have 1 and step up - sheet metal? But you could still take the plastic ones off a different car for much cheaper. If you find a wrecker w/ legit stainless rockers he will know what he has and try to charge you a lot.
I emailed [email protected] and he told me he could sell me a whole set, I asked for pics and never heard back
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