79 Caprice Replacements
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79 Caprice Replacements I have a 79 Caprice 2door. i need a trunk, hood and 2 doors. I can't find anything 77-79 for these but i found an 80's hood and trunk. Does anyone know if these will fit my 79. i know they are all the same body style.
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I don't believe so. my parents had an 84 caprice 4 door and an 84 wagon and my grandma had a 79 4 door and all the body panels on both except for i believe the wagon's rear door were changed between 79 and 80. the glass is the same except for the rear window and rear side windows on a 77-79 coupe which became flat in 80 but as far as i know none of the coupe/sedan body panels are interchangeable between 77-79 and 80-90. they made the car more aerodynamic in 1980.
77-79 coupe
80+ coupe
if you can't really tell, there is a definate difference in the body creases on the hood and sides. and here are pics of the trunks which are also different.
77-79
80-90
and since i was looking for all these caprice pictures and found this and couldn't stop laughing, i just had to post it. it looks to be a 4 door by the length of that drivers door.
77-79 coupe
80+ coupe
if you can't really tell, there is a definate difference in the body creases on the hood and sides. and here are pics of the trunks which are also different.
77-79
80-90
and since i was looking for all these caprice pictures and found this and couldn't stop laughing, i just had to post it. it looks to be a 4 door by the length of that drivers door.
Last edited by 1995blacktattop; Mar 26, 2010 at 02:20 AM.
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the doors are not the same. neither is the hood. the caprice was redesigned in 1980 to be more aerodynamic. i don't believe anything swaps except for the wagon tailgate.
77-79 (it's from an olds but all the wagons shared the same rear door sheetmetal)
80+
i'm pretty sure that's the ONLY interchangeable body panel between a 77-79 caprice and an 80-90
77-79 (it's from an olds but all the wagons shared the same rear door sheetmetal)
80+
i'm pretty sure that's the ONLY interchangeable body panel between a 77-79 caprice and an 80-90
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yeah it migt be hard to see but if you look at the doors there is a crease on the 77-79 that 80-90 doesn't have as well as the curviture of the front part of the door just above the mirror which is more rounded on an 80-90 than a 77-79.
it might be hard to find fiberglass doors for a caprice.
it might be hard to find fiberglass doors for a caprice.
