[pwd72s]

"isn't it possible that this is a late '72 and the production line switched over to the body color scheme?"

Orb? I think anything's possible, but in this case, I don't think so. The VIN# is earlier than my car...my car is black in the engine compartment, with specks of irish green showing through...which leads me to suspect that the engine compartment black was hand applied, with a brush.