Garage/bar wall art- 68 GMC....

[68chevyfuelie]

Picked this up last week from a local wrecking yard. Went in to look for a core tranny, they had a '67-72 GMC tailgate with the last 6 inches of bed, lights, bumper, whole nine yards. I asked the story on the gate, apparently they had made it into wall art for a bar in town 25 years ago. The ownership of the bar changed hands, and the wrecking yard was asked if they wanted it back. When I was talking to the guy, he said he had a couple "front ends" from the same bar, did I want to look at them? I said sure!! Went upstairs to look, and found this one, and around a '76-79 front clip as well. Dickered over price and took her home. Rad saddle is complete and uncut, still on the factory frame horns/frame mounts. Grill is nice, bezels have one or two dings on them. It's too bad it doesn't have the correct '67-68 front bumper on it, but oh well.

[dave2953]

That's awesome! The hot setup would be to have it hanging on the wall and the lights functional. What are your plans? Nice score!

[YBNORML]

Cool find! I would just mount it on my wall
Looks to me like it is a 69-72 grill though.
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[72BlckButy]

Now that is cool...

[68Mike]

Awesome score...where's the bed section?

[68panelman]

Awesome, great garage/ man cave piece!

[waynep]

WOW!!!!! some people have all the imagination!!

[Autoblueprint]

I'd hang it outside my garage just the way it is...very cool!!!!!

[68chevyfuelie]

There is wiring still hooked up to this thing, I kind of assume the bar had it wired up to do different things, or maybe just on/off. I thought it was too cool to pass up, as well as having a lot of useable parts.

I think it has '67 fenders, because there is no marker light cut-out. I assume '68 and up grill, although I would be interested in learning the difference between '68 and '69-72 paint grade grills. I thought all '67 GMC's had GMC written in the grill.

I have to go back tomorrow and look at the '77 front clip for parts, I can't remember what year grill was in it, but a buddy of mine needs a '78-79 GMC grill. I want to get the rear gate as well, I'm kinda hoping $100 takes both the '77 clip and '72 GMC gate clip, but I'm not holding my breath.

The plan for now is to leave it complete, but down the road I need the rad saddle hardware, the headlight bucket hardware, park lights, etc. If I find the stuff elsewhere it may stay as wall/garage art..... I will definately be removing and trying to sell the bumper, and maybe replacing it with a correct '67-72 bumper.