who cares if emblems are correct?

[jfalesi]

Obviously, I'm not concerned.

[special-K]

Sheer Blastphamy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...Looks cool,like it was meant to be.

[lowrollin70gmc]

I say put whatever emblems, badges, or nameplates you want on, just don't try and convince others it's stock. If I come up and ask you about your truck and it's options say I did so and so and decided it's now a --------. Then I say cool, and that's the tune.

My old boss had people argue with what year the pickup was (55 1st series) even though he had the vin decoded and the title, and anybody that knew the trucks would agree 55. That's when you just ignore the know it alls.

I like seeing different stuff, it's different.

[myfirstcarwasa73trk]

well there is a 72 gmc in my town (4 head lights)
and it has a Chevrolet on the hood but it is on the road, and I respect that more than a gmc on the hood and it sitting in a field some where. lol
Just drive it.

[2bits]

From what I've noticed here, the reason people pick apart something is usually in response to someone calling something what it's not, so he's asking for it then As long as you don't say it's "unmolested" or "bone stock" or "concourse restoration" you should be ok hehe

[RedZ71]

its the act of deliberately trying to pass your vehicle off for something that its not is what really gets enthusiasts riled up. like... NOS decals.

[67ChevyRedneck]

Some things in life just look better shaved....

Axe em all. Have some fun at car shows! Enjoy cruising in your 78 dodge, 64 ford, and your 82 chevy (all guesses as to what your 67-72 really is )

Some youngin', bless his heart (that's "southern" for idiot,) seriously told me his daddy had an 84 chevy that "looked just like yours."

[ChevLoRay]

Originally Posted by Sillyoldman

That table is not real oak. Looks like vaneer to me. Actually I think people in general like to notice things so they can be right about something. The last car show I was in a man approached me and complimented the truck. That opened the door to him ranting about a tear in my seat for about ten mins. I told him that I'd rather have the orig with a small tear than a cover that was not correct. I just started to wander away and stop listening. He left. I wanted to see what he drove in on.

Herein lies the problem with collecting/restoring/modifying vehicles. These trucks, that is the 67-72's, are an icon in the truck world. But, in the same way that the 55-57 passenger car Chevy's are an icon in their own right (now), there was a time when the most that they had going for them was the new V-8 engine. With that said, we have seen them back in the Sixties, when friends of mine were not always in love with them, to the Seventies when they were still available for cheap (a friend bought a '55 Bel Air HT for $250 off of a car lot in '72, and drove it for several years). In the Eighties, they started becoming popular to collect and parts were just beginning to be reproduced. In the Nineties, they got hot. Since then, they have become hot rods and they have been restored. There are concours cars and there are survivor cars. There are barn finds and there are the rust buckets that are mere shells of what they used to be.

Same thing is happening with our trucks. These trucks are what they are, and that is why we like them. Whether we restore them, rod them, restify them, modify them, or just use them, it's what we want to do. If you are into restoration, I understand that you are going to see something that isn't concours correct. I may look at your truck and see a run, or some lines that don't line up, or a gap that isn't the same all the way or an emblem with some pitting. But I have learned that I need to keep quiet. I have a buddy who restored Mustangs, and in the process it almost ruined my ability to go to a show and just look and enjoy the cars I saw. I hate being with someone who is constantly judging what they see and unable to simply enjoy the day.

If we are going to do what we do, we need to take the time to enjoy it, and offer compliments for the work that is done, the choice of colors, the way the engine sounds, etc. Don't diss someone or what they have, because it makes your stuff look better in your own mind.

Bottom line: If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.