[dagnabbitt]

Thanks! I've been watching your build thread too, interesting how they made so many of these trucks and so many of them were blue. Mine was originally that sort of baby blue that I always think of it as "government blue" since it was popular on base models. The Bombay blue that is on it now was just sprayed over the the old paint.

This truck is certainly a base model. Vinyl non-folding seat, no headliner: aside from the automatic transmission, I can't find an option on it. Wish it had dual tanks at least, filling it up every couple of days is a bit of a drag.

The gas filler leads me to suspect that parts of the bed are pre-75 yes, or that the PO was making an aesthetic choice when he was buying parts for it, maybe he just liked the look of it. The truck came with an incorrect set of 73-78 door panels, and as I said the 74 gauge bezel - it has that faux woodgrain veneer on it - makes me think that PO just really liked that era of squarebody.