Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

Loks like someone removed all the Highlander pieces including the DG4, nice chrome 5 x 7 below eye line mirrors. As you say, it could be brought back.

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

To most people being a Highlander is of no added value and I am sure many second owners saw it as a way to knock the price down when they bought it. The countless number of "Hidden Highlanders" just shows it wasn't popular.

This truck does look to have been a very nice example in Dark Blue/White/Blue Plaid which you don't see very often anymore.
Going to take a fair amount of work (plus $$$$) to bring it back if it needs a full interior repaint and all the trim too. The A/C and tilt alone are huge expenses to correct to factory new.

With the 70 mirrors I'd check closely for 72 doors still being on the truck!

The woodgrain is a variable and something that will take a lot more research if I can find the time. As I said before just go with what is original on the truck and you should be good. However it would not have been a customer selectable option. Plus even with woograined body side moldings the truck did not get the tailgate band! Just the upper and lower tailgate moldings. In cases like this Deluxe Two-Tone the letters were the body color.

Paying to store a project or even a driver is a hard decision. If its just space thats one thing, but spending project money to store a project is often a costly mistake.

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

Sometimes people forget or can't. So feel free to help them out by posting a quote and two or three of the best pictures (especially the SPID).

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

Too true the interiors are a specifc and often acquired taste!
But its always nice to have new converts to the Highlander clan extending the search and spreading the word.

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

I seem to remember German cars with plaid trim...
Not sure about a suit, thinking maybe a tonneau cover or a throw blanket would be enough "in the face" plaid.

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

Is this a plaid truck?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chevrolet-C-...m=221763542916

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

Yes it is. The YG8 Code on the Spid confirms it is a Highlander with the 618 Orange Plaid seat which has either been removed or recovered. Go to post # 38 in this thread to se what is in the YG8 Promo Package.

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

The trim code 618 (orange plaid) makes it a "Highlander".
YG8 indicates it is a Promo Package "C" truck that included the "Highlander" trim upgrade as part of the savings package.

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

I think with exception of the colour that is your kind of truck Tim. One question on this truck, I see it has a BB ( on the spid ) and I thought you couldn't get a BB in a 4 x 4. Is it because is a K30 the BB was available?

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

The model number CE31034 and the VIN clearly show it to be a factory 4x2 C30 V8 truck.

GM did not offer factory 4x4 C30-C3500 trucks during the 67-72 production years. In fact the first named K30-K3500s were offered for the 77MY.

All too often people are quick to claim a converted truck as a K30 when in fact there were none.

So any true 4x4 C30 you see is going to be a conversion either period or later.

As such the trucks will often not be optioned to the 67-72 factory K series convention. Big Blocks and TH400 transmissions come to mind.

An interesting example is the 70 CST/30 NAPCO that can be seen here.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=667722

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Thanks Tim. I have to learn to look further and not take things that do not seem right at face value. To me the bottom line here is the owner ruined ( in my opinion ) a very unique loaded Longhorn BB Promo Package "C" Highlander in a great colour.

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

That is one way to look at it. But also some might find the plaid interior terrible by today's standards though. I look at it as he built the truck he wanted that Chevrolet didn't offer at the time. Still pretty neat and most of these mods could be undone if you wanted.

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

Another one popped up in MN (not mine)
Not your normal color combo....and not sure about the sport mirrors.
Tim?

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hn...016154725.html

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

Man, that color grows on you. At first I'm like uggg, but the more i look at it, the more i like it.

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

So...with the black moldings (looks like mine were), you just got the plain tailgate (no moldings, just the big stamped letters in main body color)? That's what mine has.

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

Not exactly. Any Custom Deluxe/Highlander with bodyside moldings should have the upper and lower tailgate moldings. That applies to upper alone, lower alone or both.

The letters will generally be white on solid, conventional two-tone (white roof only) or custom two-tone trucks (colored roof only).

On deluxe two-tone trucks (like yours) with a 4xx series paint code will have body color letters showing through the white painted band on the taillgate.

Some Highlanders have woodgrained lower moldings and some are black. Either way does not change the tailgate treatment. Its still painted with both moldings on a molding equipped pickup truck.

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Nothing can ever be just cut and dry, right? :lol:

I'll have to take a closer look at my tailgate, it sure looks like original paint, but I haven't noticed any evidence of the moldings. Maybe I've lost my mind, though :crazy:

Here's the SPID again, just for reference.

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Follow up and picture archive to post #338.
It is a 576 Custom Two-Tone of 525 light yellow primary and a 504 Medium Olive roof.
The base mirrors hown are correct for the truck per the SPID. Unlike the bundled Promo Package Highlanders, trim upgrade trucks like this left the mirrors and all other model options free choice.

Lets find this a home guys! Its a keeper.

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

Thanks to the efforts of Bruceman1968 we have a good idea of what it looked like new with P01 wheelcovers and PU8 whitewall tires.

BTW the U69 AM/FM is not original to the truck, still a nice upgrade.

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

Tim, do you know when the Promo Packages first started being offered for the 1972 model year trucks?

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

That is a good question and one I hope to eventually nail down. But here is a tidbit.
Shown is a mailer dated May 72

--"NEW CHEVY
HIGHANDER
----_SPECIAL.
PRICED
-$260.50 LESS*."

Inside it announced

------"NOW YOU CAN
----------COMBINE
HIGHLANDER LUXURY
-----WITH POPULAR
--FACTORY OPTIONS
------------PRICED
-----$260.50 LESS*."

The back cover also noted
"Your Chevy Dealer is in a national sales contest and he is anxious to give you a great truck deal RIGHT NOW!"

So take away from that what you will but it sure sounds close to if not an inital national release. Plus it also again confirms the Highander was a seperate trim upgrade option that the Promo Package trucks included and were based upon.

Might just have to do a Promo (YG6-8) build date survey thread.

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

Tim if I had the funds my post would have read "look what I picked up" lol

It's a clean truck for sure!

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I could take a look at the truck for someone on here if they are serious about it.

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Might just have to do a Promo (YG6-8) build date survey thread.

Great idea Tim. Do you know if the broadcast sheet have the actual date the truck was built listed on it? My non-promo Highlander was delivered July 5th, 1972 and looking at the way it is optioned I am pretty certain it was ordered specifically by the original owner. As of yet I haven't looked for the broadcast sheet in my truck.

Re: Do you have a 1972 Plaid Pickup?
 

The build/broadcast sheets have the SCHEDULED build date in the upper left corner, box 10 (see the 12/71 below).

The only true and closest date of build documentation is the Protect-O-Plate as I have posted before. It has the full and only engine assembly code correct for a specific vehicle.
The build month is also keyed as well confirming vehicle assembly month.

Plus,
Your engine block (if original) should be very close to the actual vehicle build date. The engine assembly code date is what you would want to see. Its stamped into the block, forward of the right head looking down. THis will match the POP on an original build truck.

Also,
The driver's blue door certification sticker has the build month in the upper right corner. It will match the POP build month.

Finding a build/broadcast sheet in a truck other than a "Z" Fremont build is very unlikely. When you do find one look closely to make sure it isn't another truck's.