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08-14-2024, 09:43 PM
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Why do people cal 72 and older chevy trucks "squarebodies"?
Why do people cal '72 and older chevy trucks "square-bodies"?
Ive witness several people , even a TV show Car show "Guru" host call a 71 chevy truck a square-body  ......
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08-14-2024, 10:06 PM
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Re: Why do people cal 72 and older chevy trucks "squarebodies"?
Cause they're doing it wrong.
Squarebody is '73 through 87/91. K
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08-14-2024, 11:17 PM
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Re: Why do people cal 72 and older chevy trucks "squarebodies"?
Yep. Nobody who know anything about classic trucks is going to call a 67-72 Chevy a squarebody.
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08-14-2024, 11:47 PM
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Re: Why do people cal 72 and older chevy trucks "squarebodies"?
What's consistent the public's severe dumbing down of late for 1K Alex? Just kidding, sorta, they probably figure a tailgate is square
Not a good day to be addressing such questions
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08-15-2024, 12:01 AM
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Re: Why do people cal 72 and older chevy trucks "squarebodies"?
cause they're
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08-15-2024, 09:32 AM
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Re: Why do people cal 72 and older chevy trucks "squarebodies"?
^ Watching that stuff gives a person brain damage.
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08-15-2024, 11:42 AM
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Re: Why do people cal 72 and older chevy trucks "squarebodies"?
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 Back on Earth, that rig of yours is beautiful. Back to the party, I was thinking seems there are just two OEM items on my truck that are square, a pair of cab shims. The carb is mostly square though; a gray area, often written as grey.Wait, those cab shims are clearly for the body, so, the unedgucated are actually right.
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08-15-2024, 02:21 PM
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Re: Why do people cal 72 and older chevy trucks "squarebodies"?
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08-15-2024, 10:49 PM
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Re: Why do people cal 72 and older chevy trucks "squarebodies"?
Because they don't know better....
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08-16-2024, 08:42 AM
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Re: Why do people cal 72 and older chevy trucks "squarebodies"?
Since Tesla redefined the meaning of squarebody many people are lost, confused and unable to cope with the new reality.
And speaking of Tesla what was Mr Musk thinking when he named his DC electric car company after Nikola Tesla? Mr Tesla was a proponent and inventor of ground breaking AC power equipment after being exposed to the short comings the of DC power systems of the time. Much to the annoyance of his former employer, Thomas Edison who had planned to supply the world with DC power. Shouldn't the car company been named Edison instead?
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08-16-2024, 09:19 AM
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Re: Why do people cal 72 and older chevy trucks "squarebodies"?
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08-16-2024, 11:09 AM
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