The metal ones are rare. My Newport Custom came through as the wierd one. It was built in Oct. '67 at Newark, DE with 383 2 bbl. and Auto Temp A/C. It shoud have come with a 26" radiator and plastic shroud. They must have run out of them and I ended up with a 22" 3 row (2898080) and a 2 piece metal shroud.
I just had it recored and it works well. Only wird thing about the number is it is actually for a '68 Dodge truck with a 383 2 bbl. and A/C! And it is the original as I bought the car from the original owner.
Clair, the shroud you need for a 26" radiator is #2785435 and was used on 26" A/C cars from '67-'70. They are frequently on ebay and should run you $50.
The ORIGINAL radiator in my 440HP Sport Fury was 22". Non-A/C, but a TX car with virtually everything else on it. When the PO smacked something considerably harder than the sheetmetal on the front end of the car, I'm guessing the OE radiator went away. It was replaced with a 67-model year 26" rad, but with no shroud and a crappy flex fan. I set out to find the correct 22" radiator, but decided against that when I ran across a deal on the correct 26" radiator support AND a broken but fixable shroud.
Clair <span class='smallblacktext'>[ Edited Mon May 01 2006, 09:28PM ]</span>
rbrogle wrote ... Clair, the shroud you need for a 26" radiator is #2785435 and was used on 26" A/C cars from '67-'70. They are frequently on ebay and should run you $50.
Hey, Rob, I've got the '435 shroud already, it's the cracked one I mentioned. I got it from AndrewH when he parted out his SF a year or so ago. I had no idea these shrouds were so cheap... try pricing an 67-69 A-body 22" shroud... some of those jokers are going for over two bills... Ugh.
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I double checked mine, it's a 2998-969 22" and according to my parts list book it was only used in P, D, C 440 cars w/o AC. The 440 P, D, C cars with AC used a 26" 2998-970 rad. The rads used in Satallite, Challenger, Barracuda and Charger were different part numbers. The above numbers are all for '70 cars, the '71 numbers for the same cars are all different again.
Looking at Shrouds, a 22" w/o AC 383 and 440 P, D. C could use a 2998-330 shroud. All '70 P, D, C 318, 383 and 440 cars used 26" rads with a 2785-435 shroud. In '71 they used a 3443-522 shroud. Imperial's used 28" rads and a 2998-981 shroud .
Not sure why but all the '70 and '71 numbers are different.