1972 Super Glove box door QUESTION

[Dieselwrencher]

Here is the Janesville one. I bought this truck already parted out and some one used the cab for repair panels. I've been saving it to build a short bed truck out of. I was just going to cut the roof off the cab but I might fix this one.

To note, all of these did have Parchment interior. I'm strongly leaning to it has something to do with that. At one point I thought it was a special ordered thing but this Janesville truck, or the St. Louis truck above doesn't have a special order number on the SPID.

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by 402Bowtie

After looking through the definitive Cheyenne Super thread...here are some theories I have:

1) All Fremont (Z code) Cheyenne Supers had body-color glovebox doors regardless of interior color. Can anyone provide an example proving otherwise?
Not so far
2) All St. Louis (S code) Cheyenne Supers with parchment interior received a black glovebox door. Can anyone prove otherwise?
Not so far
3) For Flint (F code) YE9 with parchment interiors, black glovebox doors potentially became standard around March of '72...this is comparing some of the serial numbers to the build date thread. Proof otherwise?

4) All remaining factories had body-color glovebox doors regardless of interior color.

Flint examples are attached.

From the examples I have and collected, Baltimore, and Fremont all had body color gb doors.

[jocko]

I think 402Bowtie may be onto something. Parchment interior alone doesn't get you a black gb door - but parchment interior at St Louis seems to consistently result in a black gb door.

[DeadheadNM]

St Louis did paint trucks a little different at least for 72. The door latches were painted unlike other plants. Highlander Blazers had white interior paint added to the wheel wells and step face and all K5s got white rear top to bedside brackets (whereas Flint painted these body color).

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by 402Bowtie

1) All Fremont (Z code) Cheyenne Supers had body-color glovebox doors regardless of interior color. Can anyone provide an example proving otherwise?

I just happened to find a Fremont example even though it is a GMC. It is a current truck for sale on marketplace.

[402Bowtie]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

I just happened to find a Fremont example even though it is a GMC. It is a current truck for sale on marketplace.

Any more pictures of the dash? I wonder if it has to do with the fact that it is a GMC with parchment interior.

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by 402Bowtie

Any more pictures of the dash and color of the gauge cluster? I wonder if it has to do with the fact that it is a GMC with parchment interior.

I'll try to get a better pic of the dash from the seller. I'm not really sure it matters if it's a gmc or not. I keep searching for a Fremont gmc sierra grande and see if they're body color.

[402Bowtie]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

I'll try to get a better pic of the dash from the seller. I'm not really sure it matters if it's a gmc or not. I keep searching for a Fremont gmc sierra grande and see if they're body color.

Interesting. Seems like a hole has been poked in my theory.

For reference, it appears that truck would have been built in October 1971.

['68OrangeSunshine]

I have a '71 GMC Jimmy out of St Louis with CUSTOM trim level. My glovebox door is body color, but I'll have to check what color it was before it got repainted.
Originally 522 Medium Bronze truck. Repainted by a PO in ''Maui Blue.'' Which is not a standard truck color. It's a medium metallic blue.
[EDIT]
I was able to edit in my SPID. PO's paintshop was smart enough to at least mask off the SPID, but I can't make out any contrasting-color glovebox paint job. My impression is that Jimmys were treated just like Blazers until the Radiator wall w/4 lamp buckets and all the badges went on. I have heard the St Louis plant made ALL K/5s from 1969 thru 1971, [and K/1500 Jimmys from 1970 on --] until MY 1972, when Flint also got into the act.

[DeadheadNM]

It’s typical but not uniform that GMCs received contrasting paint on the glovebox door. My original paint Flint k1500 72 however received the same dark olive poly as the remainder of the interior.