Scottsdale Spear Molding

[TotalyHucked]

It shocks me no one makes it. I know it was not nearly as common as the other Silverado style trim but come on. I have seen people use the universal molding stuff but you still would need the spear and tail ends that I cant find.

Working in the restoration market, I can shed some light. There's simply not enough demand, 99% of people are either putting no trim on or putting the full chrome trim set on to go 2-tone. Tooling and R&D costs have gone to the moon (just like everything else these days), so with little demand, it doesn't make financial sense. In all the traveling to shows I've done in the last 7-8yrs and all the C10 folks I know, I can't think of one single time I've been asked for that molding.

 

[xm20k]

Mine is original. 4 pieces per side, there is no separate front tip.

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This is what I remember seeing, so this is what's supposed to be on mine and I think why there was blobs of RTV down the sides where it should have been, was probably reattached and then gave up when it didn't stay. Hard to tell is your roof a second color mine was a Sahara roof over Buckskin originally?

Don't think it came out bad with a bit of clean up and some spots of single stage in a spray can.

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[jagbuxx]

I would like to find them for my 77 Scottsdale but no go…

 

[Midnightmoon]

Just to confirm, 4 pieces per side on the short bed also.

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[gilby959798]

I might try to make them and 3d print them if I can figure out how to do the chrome. I wish I had a CNC machine, I would try to do them that way.

 

[Memaloose]

I had damaged and missing trim on my '75 Scottsdale and found replacements at a local wrecking yard and the lower bed piece on ebay still in the original wrapper, $60. Keep looking.

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[mlsceo]

This is what I remember seeing, so this is what's supposed to be on mine and I think why there was blobs of RTV down the sides where it should have been, was probably reattached and then gave up when it didn't stay. Hard to tell is your roof a second color mine was a Sahara roof over Buckskin originally?

Don't think it came out bad with a bit of clean up and some spots of single stage in a spray can.

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My roof is white. The molding should be attached with double sided tape, I redid the tape on both my bedsides with 3M tape.

 

[VA Gamecock]

Working in the restoration market, I can shed some light. There's simply not enough demand, 99% of people are either putting no trim on or putting the full chrome trim set on to go 2-tone. Tooling and R&D costs have gone to the moon (just like everything else these days), so with little demand, it doesn't make financial sense. In all the traveling to shows I've done in the last 7-8yrs and all the C10 folks I know, I can't think of one single time I've been asked for that molding.

I get it but I came from the Camaro world where you can literally get anything you need/want so I guess thats why I'm so surprised.

 

[TotalyHucked]

I get it but I came from the Camaro world where you can literally get anything you need/want so I guess thats why I'm so surprised.

We're getting closer every day to being that way for these trucks, but there may always be a few semi-obscure things that don't get made. I actually just had a conversation with our GM/head of development (He's been in the truck parts aftermarket for 30yrs) about these moldings and he agreed, there's just not enough demand. This is probably the rarest trim set for these trucks, they just didn't make alot of them.

These days, the way tooling and raw material costs have gone out of sight, we have to pick and choose what we repop much more carefully. All that Camaro stuff was done 20, 30 years ago when tooling was cheap. We even run into this alot when we want to make our own version of something that's already on the market. We may know for a fact we can make a better one, but if it's gonna be 3, 4, 5 times as expensive, it doesn't make sense.

 

[VA Gamecock]

We're getting closer every day to being that way for these trucks, but there may always be a few semi-obscure things that don't get made. I actually just had a conversation with our GM/head of development (He's been in the truck parts aftermarket for 30yrs) about these moldings and he agreed, there's just not enough demand. This is probably the rarest trim set for these trucks, they just didn't make alot of them.

These days, the way tooling and raw material costs have gone out of sight, we have to pick and choose what we repop much more carefully. All that Camaro stuff was done 20, 30 years ago when tooling was cheap. We even run into this alot when we want to make our own version of something that's already on the market. We may know for a fact we can make a better one, but if it's gonna be 3, 4, 5 times as expensive, it doesn't make sense.

I understand and thanks for the info. Maybe one day if just the spear end and tail end were available that would be great. We could just use the universal molding that already is available to go with it. A company like Phoenix graphics may could do something for it one day who knows!

 

[Grit dog]

I had damaged and missing trim on my '75 Scottsdale and found replacements at a local wrecking yard and the lower bed piece on ebay still in the original wrapper, $60. Keep looking.

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Still love that truck!
Bayard, NM? Thought u wuz in AZ. That’s a nice location iirc just outside the Gila NF. Can probably smell the chile roasting in Hatch from there! lol. Just used up my last 2 bags of green chiles a couple days ago, made a big pot of Green Chile!
Regarding the trim, you have 2 advantages over the OP.
1. There was probably 100x more trucks with your trim than his produced.
2. You live in the land of no rust and the sun doesn’t destroy those parts and it’s small town USA for junkyards and dead vehicles collecting on properties. He lives on the cusp of the rust belt where 95% of these local trucks have rusted into the big recycler in the sky and he’s looking for a low production part that is also made out of plastic. About a 10000% less chance of finding it on a random truck in someone’s back 40 or a pick n pull.

However this is a good forum to put it out there. I’d post on FB squarebody pages as well. Someone has some somewhere in good condition, to your point.
Kinda like I know where there’s a whole set of good used 77 model tin/yellow trim. Seen pics of it but can’t seem t get the feller I bought the 77 from to bring it back from his parents rafters in Oregon!

 

[Grit dog]

To the OP, another way to find it maybe is search squarebodys for sale …everywhere. I’ve found parts like that, someone selling a beater vehicle for cheap that the value isnt based on some trim or other non essential part. Offer some real money for it and you could get lucky.

 

[Grit dog]

To the OP, another way to find it maybe is search squarebodys for sale …everywhere. I’ve found parts like that, someone selling a beater vehicle for cheap that the value isnt based on some trim or other non essential part. Offer some real money for it and you could get lucky.

But you can pass on the guys who have what you need but think their shortbed C10 is worth $6k because their beer googles make it look like @Midnightmoon truck even though every body panel looks like it got kicked by a mule or took out a mailbox and the cab was home to a wolverine and a possum. Potentially as room mates!
I seen a shitbox 77 roller that somehow had almost all the trim and it looked mostly straight or at least the pieces I needed the most were straight. Guy was pretending to sell the whole truck for too much $ or parts for even more too much $. I enquired about the trim and told him I’d even remove it. Never got to price. The response was “will not separate”. Lol

 

[gilby959798]

Quickly drew something up. Need to export it and try to print it but the rear end piece will be easy if I can get the spear right.

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[hoagster]

Or you can find a pin stripper to paint it on some guy's do awesome work looks like the real deal.