Argent Bumpers, Argent Hubcaps, Argent Wheel as well?
 

Got to looking at my '69 GMC while working on it this weekend. I assumed the wheels were painted white. The wheels have a bunch of scratches and surface rust, But as I studied them weekend, they looked like they might be a metallic grey? It's hard to tell, but since other items that were painted white for '67-69 (like in the title here) got the silver treatment I got to wondering if that went for the wheels as well.

Were all base painted surfaces for the 1969 GMC argent?

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I think wheels for both Chevy and GMC in 69 were silver.
One year deal.

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Yep,it's a '69 thing on GMC and Chevy

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Really??? One year only on both GMC and Chevies? Boy, I love the knowledge on this forum!!!! :chevy:

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My 70 gmc has argent wheels and caps
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/...s/591c2158.jpg

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Just for clarification, we are only talking the 69 1/2 tons. Right? I know the 3/4 tons were white.

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Our 69 C10 had white wheels. Here is a picture from when it was new.

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I was thinking the argent color was just an early 69 thing, then they went to white mid year???? but I could be wrong? I have an NOS argent hub cap and it had written on the back a part # and says early style

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The original poster's truck is a 3/4 ton.

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Thanks, I missed that. As stated in my post above, my 69 3/4 ton had white wheels from day one. The truck was produced in Dec. 1968 and had 16.5" wheels. It is a CST. Perhaps the earlier trucks had argent as Joesjunk suggested above. Another thought would be that, perhaps, the lower trim levels with painted bumpers did, but that would surprise me. Could it have been a GMC vs. Chevy thing?

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My 70 GMC had silver 16.5's as well, so it may be a GMC thing.

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I believe it may be like '68 where it depended on the color of the truck. I didn't realize '70s could have argent trim.I was focused on hubcaps when I said '69-only.
Here's a collection of original hubcaps (except the 67/68 with yellow accent). Still looking for the '69 Chevy & GMC 1/2t caps:

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I have this NOS cap number 3944966 which shows for 1969. I was under the impression the more base model trucks got this color in 69. I assume the cap listed for 70 would be white.

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...saving this photo in my "Garage Art" file....

;)

K

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Wow Tim, I love the garage wall art. It's bad @**!!!

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Garage? That's my house! Art? I just ran out of room inside...heh heh

That argent cap on the upper far side is a Chevy cap,BTW

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:lol: it's still bad @**. American Picker guys would love ya...

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I think it's a gmc thing. My 68 bare bones truck was origional paint, light green , seems like origional paint on the silver rims and front bumper.

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In that picture I showed,the two argent caps on the right are a '69 C/20 (upper) and a '68 C/10 (lower),both Chevy.

Here are some '69 C/10 hubcaps:

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My grandpa bought a 1968 GMC short bed fleetside base model new and it had the silver wheels, hubcaps, grill, and front bumper. I know because I still have the truck.

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hey tim,those your caps? would love to have them! even just one! ;)

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^^ I agree. .. those are beautiful

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Those 5 are the only ones I have out of the wrappers. I don't want to open the others,so I need to keep these for showing pictures and the others just so I can say I have hundreds of N.O.S. hubcaps unopened...sorry














GOTCHA!! (or not at all?) I wish. Those aren't mine

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Wow! I guess my notification didnt work for a while on this post. Lots of responses, thanks! It strikes me that officially Chevy stayed while, whil GMC went to argent. However, it is not beyond possibility that colors could be switched according to availability. Grab what was in stock, or for inventory reduction on the line.

Now, does anyone have the color code for the argent, or suggestions for the touch-up paint? :D One of my caps is white, probably painted over. and the bumpers and all my rims could use freshening...

Thanks again, from the Bluegrass tundra!

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Did you read the whole thread? It was Chevy and GMC,not officially only GMC. That's why I showed all the Chevy hubcaps in argent

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Tried to show this picture but the server was to busy BS,so no edit an attachment after 1/2hr. Here's picture of a Bonafide '69 C/20 hubcaps. We've seen argent '69 GMC 1500 & 2500/3500 caps as well as '69 Chevy C10 & C20/30 hubcaps in this thread

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1968 and 1969 GMC wheels and base model hubcaps were painted argent silver.1968 and 1969 GMC hubcaps are different styles, so the 1969 argent silver painted hubcaps is a one year deal. Its possible some early 1970 GMC's (built in 1969) still used the argent silver wheels before the switch to white. 1968 and 1969 Chevy wheels and base model hubcaps were also painted argent silver. Agian, 1968 and 1969 are different styles, so the 1969 argent silver Chevy hubcap is a one year deal also. At some point mid year 1969, Chevy started painting there wheels white, but kept the argent silver hubcap. When new 1970 models were available (late '69) base model hubcaps were white to match the white wheels. Here is a photo of a 1969 Chevy pickup with argent silver wheels and hubcaps.http://www.ebay.com/itm/Post-Card-Bl...item4cf53beb81

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In special k's photo of the wall of hubcaps (thanks for posting neat photo), post #12, note the peculiar argent silver GMC hubcap (top left). This is the flat nose early '69 style 12" hubcap ( which Joesjunk mentioned in his post )that would only fit the front axle on GMC's. The more common deeper 12" hubcap was needed for the rear axle. Chevy used the same flat nose 12" hubcap in early '69 till replaced with the deeper version. IMO, this must have been an engineering dept. mistake by GM, they forgot about the larger spicer 60 axle option on CHevy C 20's when the new '69 hubcap style hubcap came out with the new bump type wheels. Another note, wheel colors were different for 1 tons and 4WD's for '68 and '69, most cases they were black.