I'm Glad to hear someone else Has seen Aluminum Headlight Bezels
I have a set that came with my 58 I'm trying to buff them out before
I buy the Chrome ones that are out now ($100)
I thought Aluminum only came on cars (guess I was wrong)
HooT 58
----- Original Message -----
From: J Forbes <jforbes@primenet.com>
To: Old Trucks List <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 6:49 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] fleet GMC late 50s
> Hi, Mark...
>
> I've seen two of these trucks, both in Tucson in the late 70s. One was
> owned by a fellow that my brother met at the computer store he worked
> at, and we got some parts from one of his other trucks. I don't know
> what happened to it. At the time I saw it, it was not running, he was
> still working on it.
>
> The other one was parked at a lot (an old drive-in) on Miracle Mile. It
> appeared in a movie (or possibly a TV show) about that time, I sure
> don't remember the name, but it was filmed in Tucson. I wish my memory
> was better, but 20+ years was a long time ago!
>
> I do specifically remember the grille, which looked like expanded metal,
> curved out along the middle, with chevy parking lights....the dash,
> which was Chevy but had the gmc logo on the plastic cluster window...the
> single headlights, which looked funny in that big hole, they had a
> different headlight door (bezel).
>
> Speaking of wierd GMCs from the late 50s, the truck I got the chrome
> front bumper from (it's on my 59 ext cab now) was a 58/9 GMC Suburban,
> from New Mexico highway department, at a truck junkyard in Tucson about
> 1980. It had aluminum quad headlight doors on it! Not chrome, they
> were aluminum. I didn't get them because they were torn up, or one was
> missing, or somethign, but I do remember them being aluminum (they were
> aluminum on cars starting in the late 50s).
>
> As for the 4x4 with stock steering...did you happen to check what
> steering box it had? maybe it was original!
>
> It would be easy to use the stock steering column and wheel with a later
> model gear, if you put a bearing at the bottom end of the column...
>
> Jim F
> 59s in AZ
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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