Adding trim to a plain sided 79

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The LMC catalogue has an informative diagram for fastener types on each piece of trim.
 

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Its just another place for water to get in and rust s—t out.


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Thanks for the help guys. I did buy the truck. Not positive if I’ll add the trim but I needed to know if it could be done relatively easy. I’m a complete amateur when it comes to any kind of body work.

Once I get the truck home I’ll get a few pics and post them somewhere on the forum.
 

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Thanks for the help guys. I did buy the truck. Not positive if I’ll add the trim but I needed to know if it could be done relatively easy. I’m a complete amateur when it comes to any kind of body work.

Once I get the truck home I’ll get a few pics and post them somewhere on the forum.

Congrats!
If you do the trim, you can economically and easily give it a non permanent white or complimentary stripe. Vinyl wrap
 

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When I was rebuilding my truck I removed all that trim. And as I remember it was all screwed on. None of it was just stuck on. Even that big back of the cab wide trim piece had these little "pegs" made onto the back of the cab that big trim piece was affixed to. We had to grind them off to smooth the back of the cab down.
 

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Installed some on a base model 77. Pain in the dick. The original trim pieces are thin enough as is, but the LMC stuff is even thinner and super prone to bending/kinking/creasing etc. so if you’re not super careful and meticulous with your instal, you’ll def F em up.

When it was time to drill the holes for the clips, I wanna say it needed like a 7/16 or 1/2 drill bit. Legitimately felt terrible drilling out big ass holes in original metal.

i can’t speak for you, but I’m somewhat of a purist when it comes to **** like this. If you’re going to put that body trim on, you might as well go ahead and change the fender badges to a higher level trim package...and then do the same with the interior trim pieces to match.

I honestly try to talk customers out of doing **** like this for purity sake. It’s your truck so do whatever you want, but I like em close to 100% original as possible

edit: oh and I def mentioned to the customer, that his year truck had a special one-off colored trim being a 77 and all...so not only did he insist on adding superfluous ****, but also didn’t care about doing it in a nonperiod correct manner. Same fella also didn’t want his original grille (swapped for a plastic chrome billet style), and didn’t want any of the other original interior pieces he had me replace with LMC ****...so not only did i make a few grand off restoring most of this guys truck, I also got all his perfectly usable, driver quality, original grille, door panels, sunvisors, arm rests, dash bezel and some other **** lol
 
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Thanks for the help guys. I did buy the truck. Not positive if I’ll add the trim but I needed to know if it could be done relatively easy. I’m a complete amateur when it comes to any kind of body work.

Once I get the truck home I’ll get a few pics and post them somewhere on the forum.

Do the wheel trim first and seal it! Then go from there, that way you'll have some bling on the side.
 

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