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compatible hood years?
« on: July 16, 2010, 09:14:46 PM »
I'm gonna need to go hood hunting before I get my truck painted. What years/models will fit a 1978 C10? I need to know what I'm looking for when I get to the junk yard!!!

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Re: compatible hood years?
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2010, 09:23:45 PM »
73-80

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Re: compatible hood years?
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2010, 09:37:04 PM »
Any model?

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Re: compatible hood years?
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2010, 09:46:09 PM »
Doesnt matter

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Re: compatible hood years?
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2010, 09:58:51 PM »
let me ask this question, been wondering it for awhile now.

I had a 76, and was looking at a78, and yea I know they interchange, but I had the 76 years ago and it's long gone, one the hood though..

The 78 has a flat ridge that comes over the front edge and goes down towards the grille, blending in and fading away. My 76's hood the ridge came down and meet up with a raised section across the front of the hood, all the way across the middle point, and didn't just taper off into the middle like the 78 hood I seen.

What years did they change that? The 76 had a 79/80 headlight buckets, grille molding and small square 80 grille in it. Also had like 77 and up door panels in it.
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Re: compatible hood years?
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2010, 10:05:29 PM »
Post them if you have pics. Im not sure what your talking about, but maybe someone else will chime in. Were they both original hoods?

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Re: compatible hood years?
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2010, 10:19:20 PM »
As far as I know they are. I see the one where the ridge blends into the front in   alot, and on a craigslist ad, the other I have pics of somewhere, the 76. Not sure how close/good they are but we had pinstrip around it. It was a raised section in the front of the hood.

Here's the blend in one from  ..

http://www. competitor.com/icatalog/cc/full.aspx?Page=60

That's the same as the 78 I saw.





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Re: compatible hood years?
« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2010, 10:41:06 PM »
That weird lip thing it has above the grill looks like it might be a welded on fix to patch rust... I've noticed its a common spot for rust damage.

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Re: compatible hood years?
« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2010, 11:01:01 PM »
i believe it is a 78-80 thing. sanded my 80 to bare metal and for sure an originial hood for 1980. I can post a pic if wanted.

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Re: compatible hood years?
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2010, 09:34:09 AM »
I was thinking it was a 79/80 thing too since the grille and such in my 76 was all 79/80 stuff.  just wondered how deep they went into the 80 stuff. I know the interior could have been, and the truck was 3 on the tree stock but had a 350 stock and when we got it had a straight 6 in it. We put a 350 back in it though lol.
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Re: compatible hood years?
« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2010, 09:54:05 AM »
77-80 had the bump added to the hood. I don't know what's up with that white hood but that doesn't look right. All 73-80 hoods will interchange.



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Re: compatible hood years?
« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2010, 12:39:55 PM »
I guess the 78 I seen had a different/older style hood on it and outs had the newer style since it was 76 and had that raised detail and the 78 I saw does not.

Thanks for clearing that up because I was wondering about it.

Although I thought the parklight wrapping headlight buckets was only 79/80 or maybe 78-80?
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Re: compatible hood years?
« Reply #12 on: July 17, 2010, 01:34:17 PM »
No 78 was the last year that didnt have the marker light cover.79/80 were the only 2 years that came with them.

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Re: compatible hood years?
« Reply #13 on: July 17, 2010, 01:57:49 PM »
That's what i thought, the parklight was surrounded by the headlight bucket on only the 79/80's but wasn't sure.
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Re: compatible hood years?
« Reply #14 on: July 17, 2010, 11:09:08 PM »
Here is a pic of my '80. The only change I made is that I painted the grille black instead of silver or gray.
notice the bump out on the hood just above the edges of the grille that go to the center of the hood and then straight back.
also this grille would have had square headlights and a bright(chrome) grille if it had the silverado package. this is the only year with both headlight choices.