What determines fender turn signal style on 69s?

[Some Car Guy]

I was watching a video by Rocket Restoration last month and Tom said an early build car should have the 68 bullet style for the L31 option. He stated the smaller ones couldn’t been seen over the domed hood. That got me thinking about this again for first time in years. It would be helpful to know if for nothing else than being a quick check on if a car has seen major work, plus correctly restoring of course.

My observation has been the bullet style is most common on early Lynch Rd cars. Seen many times. For instance, a car I owned had a vin ending 142707 and is an example that had the bullets. I think that car was built in October, been 15 years since I had it. I over the years came to believe based on what I saw that lynch rd had a backlog or was given the bullets so they’d be the only ones dealing with that placement. I do think I’ve seen a late build lynch rd with the small style.

He was commenting on a 69 GTX vert, so obviously that is a St. Louis car. I notice St. Louis cars seem to all have the small style. Here is a car listing I saw today, the earliest example I’ve seen, it’s a pooch, but I sincerely doubt somebody tracked down two matching fender turn signal fenders and slapped on this thing. Possible? Yes. Likely, no. Basically people just delete them if fenders are needed. Like the Ronnie Sox A12 that was incorrectly restored, but that’s another story for another day…

Is there some documentation floating around on this?

 

[68BabyBlue]

I've owned two Lynch Road '69 GTXs. The current one was built in September '68, and originally had the small style. Restored with NOS fenders in 1981, and got the larger ones with the outboard placement. The other one was an unrestored one owner car that was built in April. It had the larger style with the outboard placement.

 

[Some Car Guy]

So maybe they started with the same ones, made a change to the bigger for better sight? I’m thinking my car was October 4th. It was October with the date having an A.

It does seem like there are cars built into 69 calendar year with the small style though so not sure a “correction” back to the old style explains all this.

 

[68BabyBlue]

So maybe they started with the same ones, made a change to the bigger for better sight? I’m thinking my car was October 4th. It was October with the date having an A.

It does seem like there are cars built into 69 calendar year with the small style though so not sure a “correction” back to the old style explains all this.

I heard the story about the change to bigger for better sight from an OEM judge at the Chrysler Nationals a few years back. I know the hood scoop hid the passenger's side indicator, because I drove the car when the originals were still in place.

 

[threewood]

My 69 GTX is a Nov 68 built St. Louis car. It was factory drilled for large, bullet style turn signals.

 

[Some Car Guy]

In my files I’ve got a May 1st lynch rd with the bullets