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71 runner option questions

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:07 pm
by 71srt
I had a similar post on moparts.
The question was about having the turn signals on the fenders.

The car was:
383
AC
Cruise
auto
hood pins
fender mounted turn signals.

Someone had mentioned that this combo (signals) was only on air grabber.

Can anyone lend some insight?

Fenders appear to be original, due to paint runs from fender onto core support.
thanks

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:19 pm
by fourforty6pac
On standard hood (non A/G) cars the outside turn sigs. were mounted on the hood.

signals

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:46 am
by rr6pak
My car has the hood mounted turn signals. There are more cars with the fender ones but not so many with the hood mounted ones. :)

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:02 pm
by Eric
Welcome to the 'nest
You've read my comments on moparts....standard Satellite and air grabber cars had fender mounted turn signals, standard roadrunner/GTX hood cars had them hood mounted. I've only seen one exception to that, a very early build car that was probably an assembly line mistake.

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:52 pm
by 71srt
since I am lacking build sheet info,
does anyone know the early 71 runner vin #'s. Perhaps this was an early build car.

Also,
I assume it was not possible to have air grabber and AC, correct?

thanks

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:43 pm
by landon1
does your car have the stock front clip? if so it would be easy to tell (if there aren't holes in your fenders, they would be on the hood...i'm also assuming by having hood/fender signals, you have the light package (A01)

from your vin i thought you could determine date of production - maybe not (i have my broadcast sheet too) wish i had my vin on me, cuz mine was early (aug of 70) - my thinking is that sequence number could determine aprox. build date

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:45 pm
by Smellslike1974
What about the body tag?that should have a date on it.

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:46 pm
by landon1
there we go...that maybe what i'm thinkin...idk there's a code for month and date of a year that a car was built...

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:10 pm
by Eric
PM me your full VIN and I can tell you approx. when it was built

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:24 am
by 71GTX
My old 71 Runner A/G car did NOT have fender mounted T/S....Never seen any mounts on the fenders either when I removed them for rust repair....

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:20 pm
by Eric
the turn signal indicators were not standard, but if the car was optioned for them (L31) they would have been fender mounted

71rr

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:25 pm
by 71440 gtx
71GTX wrote:My old 71 Runner A/G car did NOT have fender mounted T/S....Never seen any mounts on the fenders either when I removed them for rust repair....
its a option light package (A01) on 71 rr gtx rh ssp

its not standard equipment with a/g hood

:beer: my 71 gtx a/g has them is on the fenner tag l31

Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:17 pm
by birdbrain
if your car still has a fender tag that's the easiest way to determine when it was built.