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Old 12-11-2009, 03:48 PM   #1
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73-87 with White Walls

Thinking about putting white walls and chrome smoothies / chrome reverse wheels on my 86 after I get air ride on it. I have found a few pics but I figured you guys would have some.

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Old 12-11-2009, 03:57 PM   #2
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

I personally think the smoothies and white walls don't look right on these trucks......wrong era
but that is just my opinion, take it or leave it
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Old 12-11-2009, 04:22 PM   #3
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

Id like 2 at lease c a few pics if n e bodys got'em
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Old 12-11-2009, 05:04 PM   #4
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

I have a pic of 1 or 2 at home, will post them later.
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Old 12-11-2009, 05:08 PM   #5
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

wide whites+flat or satin paint= ok
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Old 12-11-2009, 08:00 PM   #6
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

I love wide whites on older trucks, but not sure about a square body. I guess I'd have to see it.
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Old 12-11-2009, 10:15 PM   #7
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Vomitfest. Don't do it man, that is tacky as hell.
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Old 12-11-2009, 10:57 PM   #8
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

If done properly, it looks good IMO. For example, I don't think you can put them on a stock suspension truck with rust and diff colored body panels...it just wouldn't look right.
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Old 12-12-2009, 04:10 AM   #9
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Old 12-12-2009, 10:50 AM   #10
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

I've been contemplating wide whites for my suburban, already painted my rally's satin black. These are the only pics I have of square body trucks.

Does anyone know what these hubcaps are from???
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Old 12-12-2009, 11:53 AM   #11
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

Those caps are from an Astro van
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Old 12-12-2009, 12:00 PM   #12
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

Mine weren't wide whites but just a cheap white wall tire with rallys.

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Old 12-12-2009, 12:47 PM   #13
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I've been contemplating wide whites for my suburban, already painted my rally's satin black. These are the only pics I have of square body trucks.

Does anyone know what these hubcaps are from???
80's s10 or astro van
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Old 12-13-2009, 01:25 AM   #14
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls




Here is my 87 with wide whites.
I am going to be bagging it next week or the following week after I finish a few customer's cars....
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Old 12-13-2009, 10:27 AM   #15
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

The thick whiteys wouldn't look right on this one but stock type would.



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Old 12-13-2009, 04:57 PM   #16
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

I've got plain white walls for a stock look, not the wide ones. I guess they look alright on the rat rod style trucks. Coyote Customs, I'm really diggin' that truck.
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Old 12-13-2009, 04:58 PM   #17
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Sorry, here's a pic.
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Old 12-13-2009, 05:06 PM   #18
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

I've never seen that done to a 73-87. Those trucks look great. The one at stock height could stand to come down a few inches but overall that looks a whole heck of a lot better than I would have guessed.
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Old 12-13-2009, 05:30 PM   #19
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

ehhh not my thing
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Old 12-14-2009, 10:59 AM   #20
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

I never thought wide whites would look good on a square body, but since I went with a satin paint on my truck, I've been kicking around the idea. Some of these trucks look pretty sick!

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Man what a crack-up, you never know what you'll find on the Internet. This is a shot of my '79 somewhere in Kansas while I was driving cross-country during Americruise in Lincoln, Nebraska. I knew I was going to be on old Route 66 a lot so I might as well have whitewalls. The tourists on 66 flocked to the truck with cameras and didn't know it was as new as it is. Only 31-years old. There was a year cut-off of '72 down for Americruise, so I kind of did it to sneak in. Since this was taken I had to go to Toyos on 20s to clear the 14 and 13-inch Wilwood / CPP disc brake kit.
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Re: 73-87 with White Walls

Wide white walls and smoothies in squarebodies make it look like a clown truck. Might as well paint Ringling Brothers Circus on the side
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I like this one
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Old 06-02-2010, 11:38 AM   #24
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Here's some photos I took this morning. I dismounted the whitewalls from the widened rallys, and stuck them on the 6-lug wheels for my '68 GMC blackwall side out. The white rusty devil is my big-block '75 Big10 short Fleet with stock rallys with some kind of big ugly K-mart tires. That's California rust by the way, those early squarebodies rusted like a champ even in CA. The Toyos on 20s on my '79 Big10 still make it look like a "clown truck" because of the dated billet wheels, I bought 10-years ago for my '88, but its my truck, so I can do whatever I want to it. — In fact, I think I'll go clown some fool with it right now.
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Man what a crack-up, you never know what you'll find on the Internet. This is a shot of my '79 somewhere in Kansas while I was driving cross-country during Americruise in Lincoln, Nebraska. I knew I was going to be on old Route 66 a lot so I might as well have whitewalls. The tourists on 66 flocked to the truck with cameras and didn't know it was as new as it is. Only 31-years old. There was a year cut-off of '72 down for Americruise, so I kind of did it to sneak in. Since this was taken I had to go to Toyos on 20s to clear the 14 and 13-inch Wilwood / CPP disc brake kit.
Really? Do you have any pics of the new rolling stock?
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