eBay NOS fleetside tailgate
 

Not mine, somebody needs this.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/23559541402...Bk9SR6q8s5XHZA

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I have not seen one go for that much yet...

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WOWZA!! $2k I don't think I need it..........

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I think there was one on FB for $1500 a few months ago. It didn't sell. Probably the same guy.

Maybe if it was a 67 or 68 NOS tailgate...

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For posterity sake.

US $1,999.95
"No dents or dings", just a bent lip, lol

This apple is only $1. For sale for $1.50.

This truck is almost red. Truck is painted blue.

Item is 100% perfect! Except for this one flaw...

Car is in primer, just needs minor body work, sanding, and paint. 95% done!!!! No it,s not! lol




Why would you even say "a statement" if you immediately contradict yourself.
I'm not saying the bent lip is an issue--it isn't. I just don't get these contradictory sales ads.

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^ :lol: Yer killin' me!

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I bought one 5 years ago @$900 I then got the mint correct color take off that’s on the truck now . Glad to see it’s appreciating well will add to my retirement funds at some point if I don’t find a truck in need or one

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When I got my 68 GMC it had a tommy gate on it. I got the truck to my shop and a couple weeks later the guy I got it from said Hey do you want the tailgate off this truck? well yes yes I do. He said it has been in my rafters since like 68-9. You bet I'd like that. He I also have an extra set of the buddy bucket seats you can have too........ Great day. Jim

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My truck didn't cost that much.... and it's not "that" special to me. :lol:

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I paid $1200 in 1973 for my '68 C/10 Stepside, and it came with a free tailgate.

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What the seller wants and what the seller gets are probably a different number, especially in the current economic environment :smoke:

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Maybe just look for a whole wrecked/disabled truck that happens to have a good tailgate (yes, probably not common..) - but could be cheaper and you'd get some extra parts out of the deal.. :)

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This is a depressing trend for somone who just wants a tailgate. I have a ~'72 8' Fleetside bed on a 1-ton frame ex-farm trailer. Cost me $200 in 2006. Never had a tailgate. Not the kinda project I would blow two grand on a tailgate for.
Actually, I've heard Squarebody tailgates will fit. The style lines are all wrong, and they're a couple inches higher, I hear, but it would keep junk from falling out the back on a dump run.

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This part at that price point are catered to the "high rollers" in the hobby, which have no issues spending $125k to build an absolutely perfect show truck. As with most NOS sheetmetal, this thing needs some work.

Personally I find much more value in a new old take off tailgate, which there seems to be a few of them surfacing.

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Of course my post was the obligatory ''Crochetty Old Man Rant.''
I do understand the high roller trend. While I can't play, I see they found something good in this design, that's not available with current rolling stock. Something I saw as a 17 year-old from my high school lawn at lunch when they first came out.
I bought a good used truck when I was 23. A stubborn streak has compelled me to keep it. Every time a component needed repair or replacement, I tried to make an improvement or innovation. It's a sleeper with a Hot Rod L6.
On my third engine with 406 on the clock.
It does gall me sometimes, when filling up [which at 12 MPG is often] that some young dude asks to buy it, as though I've been the steward of his flippable Barn Find lo these many years.
Anyway I keep getting eBay notices about Chevy tailgates now that I clicked on it. A seller has an Orange Stepside Tailgate for only $750 and $78 shipping. And it's dinged!
As a Coffee Table!
If he wanted a hundred for it, I'd talk him down to $75.

[RANT ENDS]

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The days of nice $100 tailgates are gone

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I'm building the last vehicle I will ever build due to the Cost of parts now. I consider myself a hobbiest who likes to do things correctly but correctly is now a 80g build. Even though they are selling for high numbers as well I just don't Joy building trucks that cost that much. It's now entering business type of money to build these.

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Somebody bought it.

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there was one for $2400 in the past year.