Show me your 1971 Grill

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Originally Posted by Jason Banks

I think you are right, even in the 90's you couldn't find a 71 grill that didn't have the paint worn off. All of the NOS grills that were available the also only came in the 72 paint scheme.

That is not a surprise that later service replacement grilles were the later 72 style. Quite common from Chevy to use later style stuff that was the same/similar to another year to cut down on special parts. There was probably correctly painted 71 pieces made during the actual production year, but as soon as the 72 came out, they would have swapped out the part with the new unit and reused the part number. Chevy did this as well with 67 and 68 Camaro RS grilles.