1979-82 Trim Moldings Illustrations

[82GTforME]

I just bought these. Great find! Let's hope they are right

That would be wicked! Retainer UX from the 73-79 parts book.

[79mustangcobra]

That would be wicked! Retainer UX from the 73-79 parts book.

Look at you go! Good find

[IDMooseMan]

That would be wicked! Retainer UX from the 73-79 parts book.

Darran, do you have a link to or photo of this 73-79 parts book? I think I may want to have that book in my collection.

[82GTforME]

I bought the CD while ago, no book Craig. This isn't the vendor I bought from but it looks the same.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1973-1979-Fo...c46e95&vxp=mtr



I'd like to see what's available for 1980+ but haven't seen anything (not that I've looked hard).

[IDMooseMan]

Thanks, Darran. I'll take a look at that link. If I see anything for the 1980+ stuff, I'll holler.

[IDMooseMan]

Darran, doing a quick eBay search produced these results:

1980+ Stuff

Kind of a mixed bag, but eBay's search function isn't the greatest on the planet. Hope that helped.

[79mustangcobra]

That would be wicked! Retainer UX from the 73-79 parts book.

Here we go - I think you got it right.



Left to right - Original with barrel attached, NOS H (ZG) fastener with NOS barrel just barely on, NOS barrel and packaging

[kingsnake]

My Dearborn made 79 Cobra has all ZF retainers.

Kirk

[79mustangcobra]

My Dearborn made 79 Cobra has all ZF retainers.

Kirk

My 79 Cobra from Dearborm has this combo

Mostly all ZG's with one ZF at the rear of the Qtr Window Fastener(top right - in picture) -weird how they are different

[82GTforME]

Attachment 85048

I put my moldings on today with the repro kits. I feel they went on decently.

http://s1337.photobucket.com/user/82...d5euo.jpg.html

I only had two of the smaller, narrower retainers and decided to use those for the front of the door moldings. I modified the standard pieces by narrowing them for the quarter molding trim. I removed them the other day from the front pieces and that is what it looks like they did to get them in there. I even got creative and used a 3/8" socket and punched out some gaskets out of some 1/8" two sided tape for that extra level of water resistance!

http://s1337.photobucket.com/user/82...psd89.jpg.html
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http://s1337.photobucket.com/user/82...pfusk.jpg.html
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The one and only question I have if there was no spring style clip what would keep the moldings from beings able to just slide right off?

Our car never had the ZF screw/nut type fastener on the front or back. My thought after installing mine today without the ZF is that there is more than enough friction on the clips in the molding that it would take an extreme amount of wind, vibration, abuse or a combination of those for the moldings to ever come off!