Some good info, BLK (in case you hadn't figured it out yet, I was the author ), and I'll revise some of the story. I've written about 100 or so articles for the site and I know they aren't all perfect - many I've had to use reference material for, and in many cases I don't have anything else to go on unless I run into someone like yourself who's actually owned one.

I've seen some Road Runners without the split taillights - don't know if they were substituted for the split ones - don't know why anyone would, but I've seen people do stranger things - like you said, the factory did some weird stuff back in those days.

Did you see the story on the Daytona and 500? I'd be curious to get your thoughts on that writeup.