Originally Posted by special-K (Post 9177420)

No lower tailgate trim on a 2-tone, other than Z84 and YE9, is an anomaly.

42 Casper, I don't know what 1" trim you are talking about. Have any pictures by chance? I have never seen any other trim on the sides of these trucks other than the black or woodgrain accent lower trim and belt trim (upper). What you describe can't be factory, from what I have seen or know.

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 9177420)

No lower tailgate trim on a 2-tone, other than Z84 and YE9, is an anomaly.

42 Casper, I don't know what 1" trim you are talking about. Have any pictures by chance? I have never seen any other trim on the sides of these trucks other than the black or woodgrain accent lower trim and belt trim (upper). What you describe can't be factory, from what I have seen or know.

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 9177510)

^^^ Yeah, I had one like that, too. It's an anomaly as well. I posted that I had misunderstood your post to mean side trim. The one I had was original paint and unaltered for sure. I take it your truck is original paint with nothing changed, too? If I recall correctly, your seat was redone using a Cheyenne Super cover.

Originally Posted by mr.mud1 (Post 9177497)

i had,years ago,one of the narrow lower trim moldings,NOS but can't recall if i ever had a truck with it from factory.i have a Fremont,Ca built 72 Cheyenne Super with YE9 cheyenne Super on the SPID,the woodgrain band on the tailgate and no lower trim.it was untouched original paint so i know the lower lolding was never there.

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 9177566)

Yep, the Custom Deluxe came with tailgate trim which included lower. Customs came with no trim unless as an option. Then, the tail end trim would be the same as Custom Deluxe. Deluxe 2-tone gave Customs the trim.

Originally Posted by Casper42 (Post 9177501)

other than the top tailgate protector, all brightwork is original to 1972

Originally Posted by 402Bowtie (Post 9177366)

I feel like this may be a dumb question, but I will ask anyway.

Is it an anomaly that this original paint, custom deluxe truck doesn't have lower trim?

I have a takeoff tailgate that also only has the upper trim that I've always thought was odd. The truck in the pics is only the second tailgate I've seen with upper trim but no lower trim.

Originally Posted by 402Bowtie (Post 9177609)

Here's my '71 takeoff tailgate. Also missing the thin lower trim.

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 9178030)

Do you mean are the letters painted behind the woodgrain band? The answer is no, that area was painted all one color.

On Casper42's tailgate, I'm not sure that lower trim wasn't added at some point. It shows as being masked before the repaint, but that could mean the trim was added, then the truck was painted. The P.O. also added chrome bumpers at some point. A lot of things can happen in 50 years. Some trucks got a heap of changes while some may have been kept original except for an accent or two, often the addition of GM trim that was not original to the truck. I had a '78 Scottsdale 30 that I added the Silverado trim on the grille to and added door pouches I bought at the dealership. I can see people now, 30+ years later, pointing those items out as an odd exception from factory

Originally Posted by Casper42 (Post 9177501)

other than the top tailgate protector, all brightwork is original to 1972

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 9178030)

On Casper42's tailgate, I'm not sure that lower trim wasn't added at some point. It shows as being masked before the repaint, but that could mean the trim was added, then the truck was painted.

Originally Posted by Already Gone (Post 9242956)

My 72 Custom/Deluxe has the lower molding..

Originally Posted by jocko (Post 9242979)

Casper's is the only Cheyenne or Cheyenne Super I've ever seen with lower tailgate trim.

Originally Posted by jocko (Post 9242979)

Interesting thread John. I sure don't know the right answer - but, I "thought" the lower tailgate trim came from the factory only on a Custom Deluxe with solid lower body paint -or- on a Custom with solid lower body paint with RPOs BX2 and/or B85 ordered.
(by solid "lower" body paint, I mean any paint scheme other then the deluxe two tone)
Casper's is the only Cheyenne or Cheyenne Super I've ever seen with lower tailgate trim.

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 2772879)

69/70 Customs and 71/72 CustomDeluxes got it.All of them.
A 69/70 C got it with the side moulding and 71/72 Customs did,too.

Originally Posted by cericd (Post 9243206)

Not sure if this is relevant to your search but I'll let you decide.

When I first got my truck, a very low optioned C/10, back in 2012, I had plans of turning it into a higher trim level truck. One of the things I wanted to add was the tailgate band. While doing research I noticed that most of the trucks with a band did not have the lower tailgate trim. My truck came with the lower trim and I didn't like the look of the band with lower trim, especially since it seemed like it would be a dead giveaway that I had added the band. That may have been the beginning of my decision to keep the look of my truck as low optioned C/10.

I've looked through the forum and there seems to be several threads dedicated to the lower tailgate trim and the one thing they all havein common is confusion. Here is a statement made by one of our longtime members special-K that may shed some light on things,



My truck is a 70 C/10 St Louis build with the 4BX2AG BODY SIDE MOULDING- option listed on the SPID and it has the lower tailgate trim.

Originally Posted by tim71 (Post 9243259)

My Fremont built 71 K1500 Custom (with option Z62) has the lower trim. I don’t know build process or when trim is installed, but could it be possible that occasionally a wrong tailgate (no holes for lower trim) was installed and assemblers chose to not correct the mistake?