Does your truck look better with the tailgate band on, or off?
I'm thinking of getting rid of the tailgate band on my 87 at some point. It's dinged up and while it could be flattened back out, it seems like it would be difficult to recreate the factory brushed aluminum look. It would be pretty noticeable you painted it.
So have you ever ditched the tailgate band, and how did it look? Thank you |
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I think it looks better with the band. If you take it off, you'll have holes in the tailgate.
They do repop these. Ive seen them, and you'll think its a NOS band. You won't tell the difference at all. |
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This is a tailgate I got several years ago from the local Pull-a-Part. Back when there were still a lot of square bodies in the yards. It had a band on it but I pulled it off as it was damaged and I didn't want to be charged for a trim piece in addition to the tailgate. As noted, you will wind up with 4 holes. IIRC the tailgate was $30.
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My 85 was stripped of all it's trim before I bought it. I wouldn't have it any other way since I us it and drive it a lot, but a nicely done truck with a trim package screams for the tailgate band! I love trim on a finished truck, or car.
A work truck's trim is just going to get buggar'd up and look shotty anyhow. |
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I like without. :smoke:
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if you have all the other trim, then it looks better with
if theres no side trim ,then without |
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Painted to match the colour along the bottom of truck and hand pin striped around each letter in black
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That one looks pretty good. Got any more pics from further away?
Yeah the holes would have to be filled. I was just curious if anyone decided to remove it when they painted the truck. |
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Mine was a stepside and I just converted to a fleetside. I put on all the other molding aside from the tailgate band. I'm ok with it off, but I think I'm definitely going to put it on once I find a nice one.
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i love chrome i put one on there when i had none
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My old C10 originally had a larger band that filled the whole cavity like Tina’s, but I swapped in the smaller band after the repaint as I looked the way it looked better.
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Yep
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A few more pics of the truck would be welcome as well! |
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The light green is called sea mist and the dark green is Holly.
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I removed the tailgate band on an '84 Silverado I had because I used it for work. While the tailgate band is a pretty sight on the back of a truck, it doesn't make much sense to put a big frail piece of flat trim where it is so vulnerable to damage. No trim looks better than dinged trim. Plus I like the body forming that gets covered up, as well as the traditional embossed "brand" all trucks had up until GMT400s.
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But back to the tailgate bands, what is the best method of polishing the big band on my 87 truck? I read that they're actually anodized. So I wouldn't want to harm the grain, or the finish on the aluminum. Something tells me standard car polish is a bad idea. |
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Depends upon your paint, really nice paint doesn't need trim covering it.
I'm really split on it though, it really just depends upon the truck. |
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Did the same thing with my cab trim. That sucks about all your pictures! :devil: I’d find some way of getting those back. |
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