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Cigarette Lighter on Non-Deluxe Trucks
If a truck had plain black non-deluxe knobs, and it came with a cigarette lighter, was the center button on it still silver, or was there an all black version?
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Re: Cigarette Lighter on Non-Deluxe Trucks
Possibly a lot of non-deluxe [or 'Standard,' as they used to say] trucks came without any cigarette lighter.
My stepside had been an obvious fleet truck, all manual everything, but the build sheet [long lost now] stated "Deluxe Ash Tray''.* The lighter however, was a generic aftermarket unit. Likely from JC Whitney or Western Auto. It had a reverse-conical chrome knob, unlike the dash knobs. I've replaced it with a GM style lighter, but it has the white metal center. [*Other oddities included 7.00x17.5 6-lug rims and tires, SM465 4-Speed, and L25 292 L6. WC Jr mirrors, Heater, no radio.]
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I think my Stepside was also a CalTrans truck. Although anybody could select 516 Orange. The PO told me he was a sergeant when he bought it from the Catholic Chaplain at MCB Camp Pendleton, Calif. The Padre had orders for 'Nam, and advertized in the base newspaper for someone to take over payments. So he bought it. A few years later, with the Arab Oil Embargo, the price of Gas jumped. His then pregnant wife made him sell it to buy a Toyota. [He wasn't too happy about the deal.] I was a civilian --just graduated from junior college -- when I bought the truck from the former Sgt. For my own reasons, I wound up joining the Marines later that year. I still have the plate under the VIN plate. It states something like: ''This vehicle has been furnished to the dealer equipped with the latest safety equipment as mandated by Federal regulations...'' Besides the idiot lights and no AM radio, my truck had once had a radio antenna or amber gumball machine in the center of the roof. Holes from long-gone cable clips trace a track across the upper rear window edge, below the floormat to under the dash. A rubber grommet in the hole still does not leak. How the Padre came by it is an untold sea story. It was only 5 years old when I bought it in 1973, and the sergeant had it a couple years.
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10 566 A Also Felix Chevrolet in Downtown LA was the original dealer. The ex-sgt never scraped the Chaplain's base security sticker off the front bumper. He was a Navy Captain [0-6 = Marine/Army/USAF full-bird Colonel]. When I reported on base at Cherry Point NC, about 1-1/2 year later, as a PFC, I got a snappy salute from the gate guard MP Sgt, which I returned with my most military style. The second time he said: "My compliments to your father, the Colonel.'' The third time, he asked if I did have a father who was a Col? When I said no, it was just a used truck, he said he thought so, pull over there, and the royal blue Colonel's sticker was scraped off and a fresh red [enlisted] sticker slapped in its place. And no more crisp salutes. ![]()
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Re: Cigarette Lighter on Non-Deluxe Trucks
My 70 I believe to be a pretty plain jane truck and it has a black center on the cigarette lighter, which still works btw!
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Re: Cigarette Lighter on Non-Deluxe Trucks
Factory pic from another thread.
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Re: Cigarette Lighter on Non-Deluxe Trucks
Looks to me like that truck has a lighter delete plug in it. Unless my old eyes are deceiving me. LockDoc
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Agree 100%!
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Re: Cigarette Lighter on Non-Deluxe Trucks
Haha. Great story.
I'm surprised your truck had black & yellow plates from 1968. I would have figured CalTrans would have had Exempt plates on it that they would have removed before selling it. My truck has blue & yellow plates from around 1971. I found ads online for two other trucks like ours that said they were from CalTrans and they both had early 70s blue plates. Too bad you had to turn in the plates and pinkslip. |
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When I bought a '71 GMC Jimmy in 1995, from a recent immigrant from LA, it also had a Pink Slip and Blue plates. I only gave the MVD one of them, and kept one for a souvenir. I told them the front plate was lost. In AZ -- after '89 -- we went to a single Rear plate. I have a German oval-shaped white/black plate on the front now just for kicks. Checked with a cop buddy. Not illegal.
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Re: Cigarette Lighter on Non-Deluxe Trucks
I believe the blue plates came out in 69, but it took a year or two to use up the remaining black plates. From what I have found online, black plates ending on A or B are correct for 1968.
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Edit: Incorrect info. See next post below.
Interesting. Thanks! Now I'm off to the WTB section... Last edited by pjmoreland; 12-02-2021 at 09:03 PM. |
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Re: Cigarette Lighter on Non-Deluxe Trucks
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I told you wrong on the lighter. I had to go out to the shop and check. I was right about the copper plating and black oxide coating but they still have the stainless button in the center.... Sorry. Leon
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Re: Cigarette Lighter on Non-Deluxe Trucks
Thank you. I suppose most people are interested in the deluxe stuff anyway.
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