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08-19-2016, 09:19 PM
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Chrome pic
Snapped this with my phone today, but the amount of chrome and detail struck me, so I'm posting it. Not bad when you consider how utilitarian these trucks were that they clean up nicely!
As you can guess I'm partial to the GMCs with all the extra chrome, right up until it was time to pay the chrome bill! Don't know how much of this stuff is reproduced but these are all factory original parts (except the headlights and the engine emblem).
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08-20-2016, 12:08 AM
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Re: Chrome pic
That is freaking HOT! My buddy down here in Oregon has a 4wd 3/4 set up with a gear vendors overdrive and has his motor dialed. It purrs like a kitten.
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08-20-2016, 12:55 AM
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Re: Chrome pic
Beautiful! Great pic too! I am partial to the four-eyes as well. Love the all metal grill and the chrome. Even if mine was basically a base model.
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08-20-2016, 01:04 PM
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Re: Chrome pic
Oh, and I swapped to clear park lenses with amber bulbs rather then the other way around just because I thought the chrome looked better than it did with the amber. Easy swap though.
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08-20-2016, 01:22 PM
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Re: Chrome pic
Agree on clear lens, that looks great. Did you get the lens by itself or lens housing combo? Where did you get it please.
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08-20-2016, 01:27 PM
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Re: Chrome pic
Beautiful pic! Here is mine that I am proud of.
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08-20-2016, 01:44 PM
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Re: Chrome pic
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08-20-2016, 02:36 PM
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Re: Chrome pic
That sure looks good
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08-21-2016, 08:17 AM
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Re: Chrome pic
You don't need to convince me on GM's flagship truck line. BE-A-Utiful! The added engine badge even looks good, as if original.
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08-21-2016, 09:56 AM
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Re: Chrome pic
SHarp! Agree with you on the chrome bill. We always had GMC's when I was growing up, cant beat the look of all that chrome. Just great.
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08-21-2016, 10:17 AM
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Re: Chrome pic
Pretty chrome & LOTS of it!! VERY NICE, worth every penny of YOUR money.
 Thanks for sharing. Here's my eight eyes picture. Sold the Jimmy, still have the '71 stepside. GMC family here, our dd's are an '02 Sierra 1500HD & wife's '06 Savana hi-top conversion van.
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08-21-2016, 11:02 AM
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Re: Chrome pic
Well i think we all know your truck is no 20'er.
Sweet truck no matter how you take the pic love the 4 eye pics. So they got the impossible too fit windsheild in. Did they trim it?
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08-21-2016, 12:59 PM
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By our 6th time we were getting pretty good on our own, and were close, but they got it perfect. I might get it redone when I assemble a set of all original stainless, I have a repro piece in there and the gasket is a little chewed up from my own install attempts, but that's behind a visor, so for now... good enough! Love the pic of the dark blue truck in the leaves!
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08-21-2016, 01:11 PM
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Its hard too get that gasket perfect. Ive seen a few awesome trucks at shows with wrinkled/torn gaskets on the inside...even my kids 67 .i have precision brand waiting for mine since everyone said they worked the best. So ya gonna put the oe wheels on it. Did ya figure a way too prevent those priceless caps from dissapearing? besides a full time armed guard on duty too watch over them. 
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08-21-2016, 10:07 AM
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Re: Chrome pic
Nice! GMC's are my favorite too! This 71 was a fun one to restore
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08-22-2016, 10:39 AM
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Re: Chrome pic
Dave your GMC is one of the nicest I have seen on our site.Great looking machine with nice colors.
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08-22-2016, 11:42 AM
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Re: Chrome pic
Thanks for the kind words! I'm now quite partial to the color and am glad it's what I wound up starting with, though I'm sure you'd get attached to any color over time.
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