now i am confused

[mike357]

yesterday as my daughter and her were out looking for a project car for her first car. i seen a SWB chevy that i thought was a '79. i seen a hood ornament from the road and was thinking it might be a sport. i looked at it up close and it was an '80 model. what was weird about it was that it was a silverado, but it had round headlights. it also had an 85 mph speedometer. i was always thinking that '80 silverados had square HL's and 100mph speedo's. it was a diesel truck. did the diesels play by a different set of rules? this appeared to be a decent original "un-molested" swb truck.  

[74BBC]

In 80 the headlamps changed a bit, they were still circular but the bezel was made into the turn/park lamp. They changed to square in 1981.

[VileZambonie]

In 1980 the round Headlights were still standard. There was for some reason the optional square Dodge looking Headlights also. In 1980 they still had hood ornaments also.

[mike357]

i knew the rounds were still standard but i thought all silverados came with the squares.and all 80's had 100 mph speedos.

[VileZambonie]

I had a 1980 round HL's 85MPH stock speedo  

[mike357]

ok, i guess it is not an oddball truck. my 80 has squares and had a 100 speedo before i put in the dakota digital.

[Nikodemus]

1980 had the round and square head lamps. All trim levels below Silverado got the round headlights. Maybe some of the front end was rebuilt at some point.