Starlight coupe trim question

[mbstude]

On the first 500 '47 5 passenger coupes, stainless trim was around the entire rear windows.
Like this:


After those first 500, trim was only fitted between the windows, not around it.

So, my question is, do any of the first 500 cars with that rare trim exist today? Does anyone know of any surving trim?

It has to be rarer than the stanless M-series grille trim!

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Matthew Burnette
Hazlehurst, Georgia
'59 Scotsman PU
'63 Daytona HT

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[lstude]

WOW, I didn't know that. I always wondered why they didn't run the trim around those windows. I guess it was a cost issue.

I have a friend who has a 53 coupe with the body tag number 5, but I don't know of any early 47s.

Leonard Shepherd, editor, The Commanding Leader, Central Virginia Chapter, http://centralvirginiachapter.org/

[lstude]

WOW, I didn't know that. I always wondered why they didn't run the trim around those windows. I guess it was a cost issue.

I have a friend who has a 53 coupe with the body tag number 5, but I don't know of any early 47s.

Leonard Shepherd, editor, The Commanding Leader, Central Virginia Chapter, http://centralvirginiachapter.org/

[rockne10]

The rubber gasket was four separate pieces, at least in the later cars. My guess would be they leaked. I've never seen or known of one.

Brad Johnson
Pine Grove Mills, Pa.
33 Rockne 10
51 Commander Starlight
53 Commander Starlight

previously: 63 Cruiser, 62 Regal VI, 60 VI convertible, 50 LandCruiser

[rockne10]

The rubber gasket was four separate pieces, at least in the later cars. My guess would be they leaked. I've never seen or known of one.

Brad Johnson
Pine Grove Mills, Pa.
33 Rockne 10
51 Commander Starlight
53 Commander Starlight

previously: 63 Cruiser, 62 Regal VI, 60 VI convertible, 50 LandCruiser

[klifton1]

There was a green custom at the nationals in Madson Wisc.with that trim.
Klif

55 Speedster
42 Champ Coupe

[klifton1]

There was a green custom at the nationals in Madson Wisc.with that trim.
Klif

55 Speedster
42 Champ Coupe

[Roscomacaw]

Someone told me there were problems installing those pieces on the production line and that's why it was dropped.[B)]

Looking at the parts book, it notes that this trim was deleted starting with Body# 5501. Since bodies started with #1 at that time, that would mean 5500 6G-C5s were built using this stuff.

Curiously, this was only used on Champions - NOT Commanders![:0]

Miscreant adrift in
the BerStuda Triangle


1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe

[Roscomacaw]

Someone told me there were problems installing those pieces on the production line and that's why it was dropped.[B)]

Looking at the parts book, it notes that this trim was deleted starting with Body# 5501. Since bodies started with #1 at that time, that would mean 5500 6G-C5s were built using this stuff.

Curiously, this was only used on Champions - NOT Commanders![:0]

Miscreant adrift in
the BerStuda Triangle


1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe