72 GMC Sierra Grande Roof Swap

[saddletramp]

Evening Everybody Did my roof swap today came out good glad that's over now it's weld grind weld and grind some more then this coat of body filler .Saddletramp

[darrellyates]

Looks Good! I would say you are well on your way! Congrats!

[saddletramp]

It was pretty scarey getting it to fit right this roof has cab lights I'm not sure if I want to keep them what do ya think ?

[CG]

That's a good idea putting the roof on with the doors installed. Never would have occurred to me.

[darrellyates]

Originally Posted by saddletramp

It was pretty scarey getting it to fit right this roof has cab lights I'm not sure if I want to keep them what do ya think ?

I would say roof lights are a personal choice, and depends how you are restoring it. You don't see many trucks around here with cab lights, so it would be different in that respect.

Do it how YOU want it done. If you like them, leave them. If not, take them out.

Personally, I want as few possibilities for water getting in as possible, but that is simply MY opinion.

It will be a great truck either way.

Good luck, hope to see you around in your truck.

[darrellyates]

Originally Posted by CG

That's a good idea putting the roof on with the doors installed. Never would have occurred to me.

Or me either. Eliminates a lot of alignment issues..

Of course, I always do things the hardest most expensive way possible. Not by choice, but by stupidity...

[Boog]

flip for ya.

[saddletramp]

Hey Boog how did you flip my pic I've been trying to find where do do that ?

[CG]

I'm curious why you would put a cab top with lights built in if you were unsure about keeping them.

Personally I like them. I have a roof cut sitting in my shop just like the one you installed. When the smoke clears from all my projects and if my K20 is the last one standing the roof top will be installed on that.

[saddletramp]

Morning the rust on my original roof was rusted real bad a lot more work than the roof swap I did I got the donor roof for free from a friend of mine it came off a 71 3/4 im thinking if i decide I don't want them I will put on a roof skin

[hugger6933]

When I was a little kid[I'm 50] I remember my older brothers[both gone now] and their friends talking about the cab lights. They were highly sought after as options on their trucks. It was almost status symbol like, to the point they would add aftermarket ones on their trucks if they weren't factory equipped

[Leonard60]

Originally Posted by hugger6933

When I was a little kid[I'm 50] I remember my older brothers[both gone now] and their friends talking about the cab lights. They were highly sought after as options on their trucks. It was almost status symbol like, to the point they would add aftermarket ones on their trucks if they weren't factory equipped

Same in my generation or maybe it's the area that you live but. In my younger days we put cab lights on all the 67-1980s trucks (squarebodys) I've got 2 1972 trucks one has a real bad cab on it and it's taken me a year to find a new doner cab c/w cab lights because I want them. Just me but I prefer the cab lights. We even had them on the mirrors.

[saddletramp]

Evening Brother the more I look at my roof swap the more i like the cab lights I'm keeping them I found a Set of lights on EBay LED I'll post some pictures when I've got them working i got this roof for free from a friend,.Thanks Saddletramp

[AussieinNC]

Here ya go...