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Old 09-10-2013, 05:35 PM   #11
kevinr1970
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Location: Everett, WA
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Re: Got a little bit done this weekend...

The tailgate on the truck now has a GMC trim panel, but it is stamped Chevy.
Also has a diesel emblem, and paint is pretty poor.
The tailgate I bought has decent paint and is stamped GMC.

The guy said he also had a nice black hood, but it wasn't any nicer than the one I have so I passed on it.

One funny thing about the bed is that my truck has the chrome strips along the bottom of the body. If I decide the go with the short bed route, the new bed has the same chrome strips, as does the door I bought.
I will remove the chrome stuff before paint, but will leave it on for now as I am sure the paint will look very different under those strips.

Oh, and on the '89-91 core support, it looked real old and dirty, but what I realised as we were loading everything in the bed is that it is actually pretty decent and has been painted a gloss black, the same as the inner fenders.
The truck ws supposed to have been a "show" truck with a blown BB, but after sitting around in the weahter for a few years the guy that built it took the BB and put it into something else. From the way the guy I bought the parts from described it, it was a pretty nice truck, minus drivetrain when he bought it and decided to part it?
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