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Old Feb 10, 2005 | 09:51 AM
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Can you really tell the year of a truck by the taillights?
 
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Old Feb 10, 2005 | 10:21 AM
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no they made many taillights the first couple of years. then just kept using them. my 79 came from factory with 1975 on the tailights
 
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Old Feb 10, 2005 | 11:34 AM
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hmmm I just bought a '73 according to title but the lights say '74 could be a replacement I guess.
 
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Old Feb 10, 2005 | 12:54 PM
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yea, with something that old, the bed coulda been replaced, the lens could have been replaced, any number of things
 
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Old Feb 12, 2005 | 07:43 PM
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73's had a two piece tail light the lense was seperate from thye reflector and the reflector was metal the later models used a one piece plastic unit the metal ones rotted out faily quick
 
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Old Feb 13, 2005 | 01:13 AM
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what was the first year they started using the one piece design??
 
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what was the first year they started using the one piece design??
74 I believe. My 76 has one 2 piece and one 1 piece
 
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I just changed my 75 to 1 piece,,but it had one of each also,,,altho the two piece was spliced in
 
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you guys are lucky- my lights are mostly tape by now, the year being quit indistinguishable.
 
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