It's good to hear that they made it to you safe, stinks that it broke.
Took a little roadtrip with my friend to go look at a tailgate to use for parts for his 75 K5, little town of around 1000 people, roll up and the dude has a 68 Firebird sitting next to his trailer, it was really rough, he had purchased it with a buddy back in the 90's for parts and had sat in the woods until his passing a few months ago, but it had a really cool "patina" too it.
Anyways, went and looked at the tailgate, looks like it is good for what we plan to use it for, settle up, then proceeded to talk about all his square bodies that he's had and Camaro's. Really cool guy to talk too, then he brought these out in a towel and said "if anyone can appreciate these, you guys will" carefully unwrapped them and showed us. Said they were on his 84 shortbed stepper and he got the hood louvered to match them and the louvered tailgate. My friend ended up making a deal on them, so we left with the goods and a new acquaintance.
My friend plans to put them on his 75, but I told him that we need to take measurements on them all so that then I finally get done with all my various projects, make louvering dies to make replicas of these (not chrome ones).
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