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09-04-2018, 09:53 PM
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Drip Rails
Last Saturday I found a '73 Short Stepper in the Jackson Pick-A-Part. I bought the bed, the gas tank brackets, the grill & the cab roof & rear part. But this roof is smooth with no drip rails. They should be screwed to it but it's never had any. Were drip rails a dealer installed option?
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09-04-2018, 11:53 PM
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Location: El Lago, TX
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Re: Drip Rails
From what I remember reading on here years ago, 73’s didn’t have drip rails when they first came out. Maybe there were complaints and the General decided to add them.
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09-06-2018, 09:12 AM
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yeller
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Re: Drip Rails
1973 drip rails were not offered, option starting in 1974, standard equip 1975 and after.
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09-06-2018, 09:14 AM
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yeller
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Re: Drip Rails
Another interesting 1973-only note, the panel below the rear window on the inside of the cab is smooth, whereas other years there are panel recesses stamped into it.
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09-06-2018, 02:53 PM
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Re: Drip Rails
My 75 came with drip rails but they were some kind of plastic and riveted in. Replaced them with some metal ones found at Pull-a-part that used screws to fasten.
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09-06-2018, 09:17 PM
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Re: Drip Rails
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Oh yeah I only call it a '73 cause that's what the Part A Pull sticker on the fender said. Looks like a '73 but could be a '74 maybe. What's the difference? |
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09-07-2018, 08:37 AM
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Location: Sterling, Illinois
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Re: Drip Rails
73's have bolt-on tailgate hinges for the tailgate, similar to the 72 and back. There's a couple other oddities if you really wanted to be certain. The shifter linkage coming off of the transmission is offset the opposite direction (on a 2 wheel drive 73 only)
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09-09-2018, 10:48 PM
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Re: Drip Rails
OK. The tailgate had been removed when I got there & also the little round trunnions that it rotates on but I got the chains. The steering column had been removed also. It was a std shift truck but had a turbo 350 in it, I got the crossmember also!
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09-10-2018, 01:31 AM
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Re: Drip Rails
I believe 73 is also the only year for a solid hood. 74-80 were purposely made to crease in the middle to avoid a guillotine effect during a head on collision. That is story I have always heard anyway.
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09-10-2018, 09:53 AM
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Re: Drip Rails
Next time I go down there I'll look at the hood if the truck is still there, it was thrown up in the bed with half a garbage truck fulla crap.
The bed floor was two pieces of roof tin from a chicken house! 
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