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Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
I'm thinking of getting rid of the tailgate band on my 87 at some point. It's dinged up and while it could be flattened back out, it seems like it would be difficult to recreate the factory brushed aluminum look. It would be pretty noticeable you painted it.
So have you ever ditched the tailgate band, and how did it look? Thank you Last edited by bennylava; 07-27-2022 at 03:31 AM. |
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
I think it looks better with the band. If you take it off, you'll have holes in the tailgate.
They do repop these. Ive seen them, and you'll think its a NOS band. You won't tell the difference at all.
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
This is a tailgate I got several years ago from the local Pull-a-Part. Back when there were still a lot of square bodies in the yards. It had a band on it but I pulled it off as it was damaged and I didn't want to be charged for a trim piece in addition to the tailgate. As noted, you will wind up with 4 holes. IIRC the tailgate was $30.
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
My 85 was stripped of all it's trim before I bought it. I wouldn't have it any other way since I us it and drive it a lot, but a nicely done truck with a trim package screams for the tailgate band! I love trim on a finished truck, or car.
A work truck's trim is just going to get buggar'd up and look shotty anyhow.
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
I like without.
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
if you have all the other trim, then it looks better with
if theres no side trim ,then without
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
Painted to match the colour along the bottom of truck and hand pin striped around each letter in black
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
That one looks pretty good. Got any more pics from further away?
Yeah the holes would have to be filled. I was just curious if anyone decided to remove it when they painted the truck. |
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
Mine was a stepside and I just converted to a fleetside. I put on all the other molding aside from the tailgate band. I'm ok with it off, but I think I'm definitely going to put it on once I find a nice one.
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
i love chrome i put one on there when i had none
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
My old C10 originally had a larger band that filled the whole cavity like Tina’s, but I swapped in the smaller band after the repaint as I looked the way it looked better.
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
Yep
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
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A few more pics of the truck would be welcome as well! |
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
Thanks buddy. I can’t remember anymore, I’ll have to look them up when I get home. They were factory colors in 1978. Here is another pic.
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
The light green is called sea mist and the dark green is Holly.
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
That’s sharp! I love the green trucks. Can we see the interior?
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
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But back to the tailgate bands, what is the best method of polishing the big band on my 87 truck? I read that they're actually anodized. So I wouldn't want to harm the grain, or the finish on the aluminum. Something tells me standard car polish is a bad idea. |
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Re: Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
Depends upon your paint, really nice paint doesn't need trim covering it.
I'm really split on it though, it really just depends upon the truck.
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Did the same thing with my cab trim. That sucks about all your pictures! ![]()
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