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Good luck. Check with your local C10 club, keep an eye out on Ebay and Facebook marketplace. They're rare as hens teeth but I do run across one from time to time. A nice, restorable one, good original or NOS is going to cost a pretty penny. I know a few guys that have all gotten $2000+ for nice original '83/84 grills
 

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Looking for a grill for the 1984 K2500 I am building. Restorable, NOS, is fine. Any help would be appreciated!
Welcome from the Motor City! Good luck with your search.. I’ve been looking for 3 years. If you find 2… I wanna be your first call.
I put an ‘85 Grille on my ‘84 ‘till I find that unicorn.
 

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For the life of me I can't understand why someone isn't doing a repop on these. Chevy's are out there but no GMC's. :-(
The powers that be (at least at my company) are using older data that says GMC stuff sells 1 to every 50-60 Chevy parts so they're unwilling to tool them up. I've made case after case to do certain GMC grilles that I know for a fact would sell well. But they haven't taken the bait yet, no matter how many times I show them thread/posts of people looking for them and the ridiculous prices they go for
 

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I seent a whole 1984 GMC truck get bought just for the grille and resold lol. Guy bought it for a grand, took the grille, put in a chevy one and flipped it to an uninformed purchaser. Brilliant way to get what you want and avoid the crazy high reseller pricing.
 

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The powers that be (at least at my company) are using older data that says GMC stuff sells 1 to every 50-60 Chevy parts so they're unwilling to tool them up. I've made case after case to do certain GMC grilles that I know for a fact would sell well. But they haven't taken the bait yet, no matter how many times I show them thread/posts of people looking for them and the ridiculous prices they go for
So sell it for ALOT more. Would STILL sell.

Wonder what the tooling cost would be and where you would have it made?
 

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So sell it for ALOT more. Would STILL sell.

Wonder what the tooling cost would be and where you would have it made?
That's what I've told them. Our Chevy grilles sell for anywhere from $120-260, I know the GMC grilles could sell for $350-450 as hard as it is to find them. I'm just spitballing but I'd guess tooling would be ~25-40k or so. Depends on how intricate the grille is. It'd be made in Taiwan with everything else.
 

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For the life of me I can't understand why someone isn't doing a repop on these. Chevy's are out there but no GMC's. :-(
There were Repops sold ‘till around 3 years ago (without the emblem provision) Motor City K5 and a couple of other vendors sold them.
I was told by MC/K5 that there wasn’t enough demand.
If you find a used one, expect to pay at least $500
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There were Repops sold ‘till around 3 years ago (without the emblem provision) Motor City K5 and a couple of other vendors sold them.
I was told by MC/K5 that there wasn’t enough demand.
So the tooling is out there - wonder where and how much to procure it? Alot less than $25k me thinks.
 

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Welcome to the forum and good luck with the grill hunt!
That's what I've told them. Our Chevy grilles sell for anywhere from $120-260, I know the GMC grilles could sell for $350-450 as hard as it is to find them. I'm just spitballing but I'd guess tooling would be ~25-40k or so. Depends on how intricate the grille is. It'd be made in Taiwan with everything else.
I purchased the AMD repop for my build, looks like it is someone else’s product but I trust AMD wouldn’t market junk. It looks great!

This is my third one in the life of the truck, when I bought the first 2 replacements from the dealer the parts guy told me this was the single most expensive square grill GM made. At least in 1997-1999 it was, I had buddies there and got the employee discount, they were over $300 back then with the discount.

The one I’m replacing is actually in good shape and I planned on reusing but the chrome plating is all pitted and doesn’t polish up good anymore. It looked horrible compared to the re-chromed headlight bezels and new bumpers.

Sorry for hi-jacking OP, I’m just excited about my new grill.

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