it sounds like you're wondering if the handles on your truck are GM made or aftermarket - if they're the correct handles for your year what would be different? if the handles need rechroming, then they're not NOS obviously - if they look like they could take a good chrome job, it's up to you if it's worth it!

OEM and NOS are usually the same thing - NOS doesn't mean the part is repro or from an 'aftermarket' supplier, only that it's a brand new part from way back then that was never used - much/most NOS is by the OE maker, which is why it's preferable to reproduction

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics