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| | | | Joined: Oct 2017 Posts: 6 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Oct 2017 Posts: 6 | Hi, I'm a new member I have a 1956 gmc 100 short bed that just won its first junior at the aaca in Hershey pa. Going for a senior at next meet,can some one please tell if the hood hinges are cadmium plated or body color, and what color are the springs.my are body color at the moment.some guy at show said the truck is perfect but he thinks the hinges should be cadium plated,he said chevys were cad plated didn't know about gmc. Thanks for any info. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,440 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,440 | Ok, your off to a bad start here. Posting the same question multiple times just because you don’t get an immediate answer is not how you win friends and influence people. Slow your roll, someone will be along to help you within a few hours.
Martin
'62 Chevy C-10 Stepside Shortbed (Restomod in progress)
'47 Chevy 3100 5 Window (long term project)
‘65 Chevy Biscayne (Emily)
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | what is the question
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Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,440 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,440 | Post had to be approved. Should be there now.
Martin
'62 Chevy C-10 Stepside Shortbed (Restomod in progress)
'47 Chevy 3100 5 Window (long term project)
‘65 Chevy Biscayne (Emily)
‘39 Dodge Business Coupe (Clarence)
“I fought the law and the law won" now I are a retired one!
Support those brave men/women who stand the "Thin Blue Line"! Hug a cop!
USAF 1965-1969 Weather Observation Tech (I got paid to look at the clouds)
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2017 Posts: 6 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Oct 2017 Posts: 6 | | | | | | Joined: May 2017 Posts: 50 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2017 Posts: 50 | I got some really nice looking original hinges at the junk yard last week and they appeared to have some sort of galvanized coating. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,272 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,272 | I pulled a hinge off an AD which had never been removed before, and there was what looked like plumber's putty under it which is what GM used to keep rain out of the cab. Once the putty was cleaned off I could see a shiny, metallic silver finish. I have used Rustoleum self-etching primer under Rustoleum metallic silver paint which is a very close duplication of the original finish, which I believe was cadmium plating.
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | | | | | | Joined: Oct 2017 Posts: 6 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Oct 2017 Posts: 6 | Thanks for the info zenwren. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2017 Posts: 6 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Oct 2017 Posts: 6 | Thanks for the information, I believe they should be cadmium plated. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2017 Posts: 6 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Oct 2017 Posts: 6 | Thanks for the info, going to send them out to get cadmium plated for the next aaca senior judging show. Thanks much...... | | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,214 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,214 | some guy at show said the truck is perfect but he thinks the hinges should be cadmium plated,he said chevys were cad plated didn't know about gmc. That guy was me...I was 99% sure they should be cadmium hinges, but wanted the GMC guys to weigh in. You have a really nice truck, did you win a trophy? Mike B 
Last edited by Mike B; 10/17/2017 2:49 AM.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2017 Posts: 6 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Oct 2017 Posts: 6 | Hi Mike B, yes I did win first place now going for a senior award, thanks for the info. Sending the hindges out to plated. | | |
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