Drip rail on '76 Comet 4-door base.

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  1. SilverStreak

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    Did the drip rail on those cars have a chrome covering or were they just painted?

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    Could be either way. I would say most has the trim on them.
     
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    They probably were a option... Since every 4dr starts as a base model, dealers likely ordered the bright rails to spiffy up the selections he had on lot... A customer order may well have passed them over...... You need a option list to really know, could well have been std one year, optional the next...

    In the late '60s & early '70s Ford published a buyer's guide or Armchair Estimator so you could figure prices at home on a new model... Looking on ebay newest I've seen is for 1973...

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/1973-Februa...ash=item3f8372a460:g:iWoAAOSw-itXuhjg&vxp=mtr
     
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