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04-02-2012, 07:39 PM | #1 |
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Black headlight bezels
I see some trucks with black in the headlight bezels. Like on the 79 and older. Is that factory or do people just paint them that way?
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04-02-2012, 07:54 PM | #2 |
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Re: Black headlight bezels
They were factory black on my 77 GMC.
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04-02-2012, 08:27 PM | #3 |
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Re: Black headlight bezels
i know it came it some trucks, i though about doing it earlier today.
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04-02-2012, 09:39 PM | #4 |
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Re: Black headlight bezels
On my old 77 dually they were unpainted, I spent about an hour and 5 dollars worth of paint on them.
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04-02-2012, 10:03 PM | #5 |
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Re: Black headlight bezels
some were grey, like in the 78 mine are
actually thought of that (painting the bezel black)putting the bush bar on yesterday i think it would look cooler now
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04-03-2012, 08:17 AM | #6 |
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Re: Black headlight bezels
I think the black was a 73-74 thing
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04-03-2012, 07:19 PM | #7 |
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Re: Black headlight bezels
I agree.
I believe the 73-78 headlight bezels were originally painted like this: 73-74 = black 75-76 = argent silver 77-78 = dark argent (grey). I think the larger bezels used on 79's (and some 80's with round headlights) continued to use the dark argent (grey) color as well. |
04-03-2012, 09:22 AM | #8 |
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Re: Black headlight bezels
yep my 74 has them. My 75 does not
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04-03-2012, 11:57 AM | #9 |
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Re: Black headlight bezels
my 74 has them too
there a little faded but there black |
04-03-2012, 09:35 PM | #10 |
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Re: Black headlight bezels
I cant say for sure, my buddy has an all original 77 silverado, his is black. My base model 77 dually had the grey. Maybe its a trim level thing?
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04-03-2012, 10:17 PM | #11 |
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Re: Black headlight bezels
According to this brochure from http://brochures.slosh.com/index.shtml?1977ctv, all 77 headlight bezels are supposed to be "dark gray metallic"
This is from page 2 of the "Pickups" link on that site. Page 3 of the Blazer and page 2 of the Suburban ones list the same info about the headlight bezels. |
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