stock 4x4 pics...anyone?
 

im in the process of piecing together a couple of 4x4s...anyone have pics of totally stock restored ones? im thinking steel wheels painted white with dog dish caps might look kinda cool. were these kind of wheels 16 in?

Heres a few pics of my 68 with painted wheels and dog dish caps, not exactlly stock since hubcaps were not available on the 67/68 4x4s

72 K20 done nicely
 

Here are a couple of pics of 72 K20 with stock style caps on 16" wheels

Here's some 72 GMC K2500.

What size tires?
 

To the owners of the trucks pictured on this thread: What size/ type tires are you running on these trucks I think the look is great. not too big and not too small.

tires
 

Michelin LTX AT LT235/85R/16's on ochre/white 72 cheyenne. These are stock GM 8 lug 16" rims which were sand blasted and painted back the GM white again. I beleive they are 6.5 or 7" wide.

thanks for the pics...tire and wheel size would be nice to know too. i dont care if the caps are exact for the year i just really like the look

I believe they were originally 6.5x16.Later on they were 7".These trucks would have come with 7.50x16 rubber on those rims.The 16.5s were shorter(8.50s)and wider.Too small in my opinion.The metric equivelent these days to the 7.50 is the 235/85x16.If you want to keep the look,but go for more beef,255/85s look good.They`ll still fit unless front springs are tired.No pics at the time(soon),but,I`m running the same set-up as Cheyenne10 on my Highlander & 9.75x16.5 OEM-type/Factory caps/12.50x16.5 rubber on my SierraGrande,a hybrid-stock look.These trucks were available with 8.25x16.5 rims(K/20)&8x15(K/10)to fit bigger 9.50-10.50 tires.

Mine don't have stock hubcaps for its model , but i think they look pretty good . They are late 70's and early 80's model type caps . My tire size is 285/75/16 on factory , powder coated 16x6.5 . With the 4.11 gears i ahave the larger size tires are better for myself . My truck has a 4 inch suspension lift as well . Nice trucks guys !

I saw a 68 4x4 drive by my office the other day, it looked good, dark green the wheels were grey I believe with no hubcaps.

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This is my favorite thread, The older i get, the more i appreciate the "stock" look.

Keep them comming, guys

Not older, wiser ;)

im really liking this look...thanks for the pics and info

You guys will correct me if I'm wrong here, . . . . . . But, . . . .
Didn't MANY of these trucks also come with 16.5" wheels stock.
At least that is what my research has shown me.
A while ago I was in the market for a nice set of original steel wheels for my 72 K20 Super, and had a hard time finding 16" wheels compared to all the factory 16.5 wheels? :(

Darren

Not sure about the 8 hole 3/4 ton wheels but there was a 16"x 6" 6 hole wheel that was an option for the 1/2 tons.

lock outs
 

i was wondering if the different color lock-out hubs mean anything?

8-lug Ford 16" wheels look even better and they will accept our dog dish hupcaps. They are wider and deeper.
75 series tires, like 265-75-16 are a wider tire, yet the same height as 235-85-16.

My Truck Was Optioned With These Originally...

Everytime I say to myself "remember it's a beater truck". You guys go and post pictures like these. Those trucks are amazing. I want my truck to look like that.

16" wheels/questions
 

Imdarren;
You may be right on 16.5" wheels, not sure I've seen a glove box option sheet for 3/4 ton showing 16" wheels. Also the 16.5" tires are harder to find in variety of sizes and more expensive, the 16" wheel size has several choices of tires.

Ours are off of a 73 and up GM truck and so are the hub caps with gold centers. The 69-72 16.5" wheels took the same cap only they had blue bowtie centers and the center was an "outy" not an "inny" like our gold bowtie caps. As for the hub centers, as far as I know the 69-72 chevy/GMCs had blue hub knobs stock, the gold ones came out in 73-7x and the red ones were for the fords. But my idea was on restoration fo a stock ochre/white truck teh gold hubcaps and hub knobs fit PERFECT!!

As for my 3/4 ton blue/white suburban in the works, well use your imagination for now!! :D

Gentlemen, thanks for reminding me of the "classic" in 67-72 GMC/Chevy trucks. :bowtie: :gmc:

Stockton Wheel offers rim widening services for those folks who would like to mount wide tires on stock style rims. Before this thread, I thought I'd go with forged aluminum rims, but now I'm waffling between alum and widened stock rims with caps. Keep 'em coming.

As we're shown these stock style pics, let's compare opinions on tire/wheel combo asthetics. I think that the stock rim looks we've been presented call for blackwall tires only. The white letters distract from the stock look by bringing undue attention to the tire brand, vice the stock rims. This is especially true for HOTFUN.:D Comments?

The different colors do mean something, you have red, yellow and blue. Blue on early GMs and I think the yellow was in later years, red was on the fords.

4x4poet,Let`s not go there.No offense.We all have our opinions.But,all these trucks are awesome.Tires can be flipped & balanced for under $100 in less than 1 hr.We could run another thread on this,but let`s just keep the pics comin`.Lookin`good guys.I like the lift w/285/75x75s.Gives a tough look w/o looking modified.Kinda like a K/30 look.I have powdercoated 16"ers waiting a new set of 285s(probably WranglerMT/Rs.

I'll have to get the ol' scanner hooked up this weekend. I've got some vintage stock 4X4 pictures.

here is a pic of my truck from the ebay auction...the hubcaps are the correct style but are not original to this truck.http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...chmentid=59381

My tires in that picture were stock 16" and I think are 7" but were from a 78 Chevy K20 and the tires were a rare one 31.50X 10.5 X 16. THe originals ones were of course the 16.5's. I just recently replaced the tires for some new take off 245/75/16 blackwall Firestones off a 2003 Chevy K2500 and it really looks bone stock. My hubcaps are NOS correct year GMC caps and the gold center hubs were my only choice from GM since they were the superceded number for the blue ones.

As we're shown these stock style pics, let's compare opinions on tire/wheel combo asthetics. I think that the stock rim looks we've been presented call for blackwall tires only. The white letters distract from the stock look by bringing undue attention to the tire brand, vice the stock rims. This is especially true for HOTFUN.:D Comments?[/QUOTE]


I disagree, i really like the stock look, with the modern look of white wall tires. I don't know exactly what it is, but it gives the stock look a modern touch.

Remember, everyone has their own idea of what looks "right" to them, and it is their truck.

David

Also,raised white letters began(factory)with"Wide-Ovals"on muscle cars from the same era as our trucks.I`d call it a sporty look.Lots of guys run RWLs on the SWBs w/rallyes for the"Muscle-Truck"look.My trucks have the stock look(blackwall).But I want one w/huge tires & custom wheels and other off-road performance enhancing mods,too.

The original tires, either radials without tubes on steel rims or bias plys with tubes on split rims, didn't have white letters on 'em. Just raised black ones. Either way those trucks look awesome!

I agreee with griesel72 the stock oem blackwall Firestone LT245/75/R16 make the old 72 GMC look totally stock with a great ride for such a stiff suspension. I have the truck clip off at the moment to put a fresh 350 and rebuilt automatic in it and then she'll be my acreage truck. Now for my 72 original Cheyenne short fleetside in it's original factory finish of orange and white, I am going with a set of NOS factory 4x4 full wheelcovers that I have stashed away and 4 new whitewall P235/75/R15 type tires. And the factory alloy GM 15X7 wheelswith NOS caps from a 82 Chevy diesel 4x4 that I had stripped and polished to look like chrome plated with a set of 31X10.5R15 RWL Michelins will then go onto my 67 black 4x4 stepside when its finished.

Ahh,variety.

wow, great pics guys! I saw a stock 72 Cheyenne C20 the other day that could have been my trucks sister with stock wheels and caps, it got me thinking....

Dion are you still selling your truck?

I tried but I didn't get any real offers. I put it on ebay a couple of times but it didn't come anywhere near my reserve. I tried the trader also and only had one call. I'll just have to wait until I find a serious buyer I guess.

dion.

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Wow, nice truck BLAZERMAN, thats the look I'm goin for.

How about some info on tires/suspension please :D

Thanks, suspension is 2.5" Skyjacker Softride springs in front with ORD heavy duty greasable front shackles and blocks in the rear.

Tires are 33"x9.00 15 Bridgestone all terrains.

thanks for these pics and ideas...i have a set of stock 16.5 i can use...ill just store the 33 12.5 15s for the next project

Here's my 68 3/4, 4X4. It came with the 16.5 rims, which I have switched over to the early 80's 16" rim, and have 245/75 tires. Sorry about the paint job, some high school kids had it before me and put it on there.