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02-27-2021, 09:36 PM | #1 |
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Kick panel vent handle in '68
I believe this is the factory kick panel vent handle for a '68 (see pic). Sounds like they changed it to a round knob in '69. I can't make sense of why the early ones were designed this way. If it spins easily on the rod, it's very awkward to use. I'm not even sure which direction it's supposed to be turned on the rod. Anybody have some background behind this design? I never got to use one when new, so maybe it made more sense back then?
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02-27-2021, 09:53 PM | #2 |
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Re: Kick panel vent handle in '68
my 67 is like that too i wonder the same thing
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02-28-2021, 01:20 AM | #3 |
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Re: Kick panel vent handle in '68
I have a '68 C10 and '68 C20 and both of them have the same ones that you posted.
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02-28-2021, 05:50 AM | #4 |
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Re: Kick panel vent handle in '68
My 67 Ramp truck has them. I just think thats how the molded them back then.
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02-28-2021, 09:37 AM | #5 |
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Re: Kick panel vent handle in '68
I didn't realize the later ones were different! You learn something new every day here. My guess is the later design was 10 cents cheaper to source they went with that design.
I saw a news article many years ago how automotive designers tweak every last cent out of their production costs. 50 cents per unit equates to hundreds of thousands of dollars of cost savings over millions of units produced or something like that.
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02-28-2021, 10:27 AM | #6 |
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Re: Kick panel vent handle in '68
Toms68cst, you are exactly right. Styling, cost, vender quality all go into making a car or our case a truck. GM doesn't spend a penny they don't have to. So when you say i'm not going to put that part back on, remember it was designed and installed by GM for a reason.
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02-28-2021, 10:40 AM | #7 | |
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Re: Kick panel vent handle in '68
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02-28-2021, 11:03 AM | #8 |
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Re: Kick panel vent handle in '68
For my 71 C-10 I went to pickclick and typed in billet knobs, it will pull up all kinds of knobs. I put a whole set in the 71. The dash and the vents all match.
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