Back to the junkyard again this morning. I was bummed about the grill not having the headlight bezels, but was just happy to get it all at such a great deal. Opened the doors on the camper to start pulling the dash, there were the headlight bezels tucked in next to the cabinet behind where the passenger seat would have been. They were covered up by a couple nasty 1990's t-shirts so I didn't even notice them yesterday. YAS!
So I worked on it for about 2 hours, then shot the breeze with the owner and employees, some of the regular customers for about another hour
Picked up the complete dash, woodgrain bezel (40something thousand miles on the old girl), doghouse, all the little pieces and parts, 77 GMC owners manual, a folding card table
(worked well to sit my tools on while pulling parts and it will come in handy in the garage for sure), decided to just grab the entire doors since they are so nice and rot free, a battery tray in great condition, a windshield washer jug, the kitchenette table with flush floor mount, the tilt steering column from the rag joint to the cherry GMC steering wheel, and the chrome trim for the door sills and wheel wells inside. Everything for $125, WHEW!
Headlight bezels and washer jug
Decent battery tray
Nice doghouse and cover, the gasket is even in great shape as well as the heat pad. Only has two small screw holes in the front where someone had something mounted at some point, no biggie.
Freebie folding card table
Tilt column in perfect shape. Guys, I was going to use this column to rebuild and make a tutorial for you all, but this thing is mint. Zero slop in the bearings or anything, so cherry. So I will keep an eye out for another column, or possibly rebuild my original for the forum tutorial. They're actually not hard at all and fairly cheap to rebuild.
Beautiful gauge set and bezel. Dash is cherry as well, only one non factory hole where they had a weird push/pull electrical switch running to something in the rear of the camper. I'll use that hole for a fog light rocker switch down the road. The darn AM/FM radio even looks minty fresh. I'm sure this is going to be a bit of a pain to convert my 82 dash to the 77 dash, but it's going to be worth it in the end.
Doors are super solid, only a tiny bit of surface rust in the bottoms, and a couple super small bubbles here and there. Even the door rubbers are in great shape, the rubbers in my 82 are crusty, brittle, and falling apart. I'm guessing because the camper had the front bunk that kind of hangs over the doors by about another 6 inches on each side, it protected them from lots of water damage over the years. The wing windows look a bit crusty, but I still have the one good set in the same junkyard I'm going back to pull soon.
And last, the "Tiidee" brand dinette table with flush mount base and pedestal.