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The Truck Champ Chrome Accessories Learning Center

• Why should you add Chrome Accessories to your truck or SUV?
• How easy is it to install Truck Champ’s Chrome Accessories?
• A Quick Look at Truck History and Chrome Accessories for Trucks
• Chrome Accessories: Trade Shows.

Chrome accessories, or “aftermarket parts,” add to the style of an OEM (original equipment manufactured) vehicle, as opposed to hard parts such as radiators or air filters. Nothing sets your truck or SUV apart from the rest of the pack more than classy, custom chrome trim. Some of Truck Champ’s products include mirror covers, head lamp trim, tailgate handles, window visors, fender trim, mud flaps, and door handle covers. Even chrome grilles and stainless steel fender trim. And all that pizzazz.

Truck Champ offers an extensive selection of products that are quick and easy to install for a wide variety of makes and models. If you want to create your own special look through custom-design, or if you decide to completely transform your vehicle with a total chrome accessory upgrade—from bumper to bumper—our products are available through the Internet. At the right price and backed by lifetime warranties.

Why should you add Chrome Accessories to your truck or SUV?

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Let your imagination run wild and create your own distinctive style by adding these shiny accessories to your truck or SUV. Adding just one chrome accessory or applying bumper-to-bumper treatment can transform the everyday into the extraordinary. Truck Champ’s brilliant products, which are designed to fit your specific make and model, catch the brilliance of the sun and reflect the glow of evening lights. These dramatic enhancements add the pizzazz you’re looking for and transform your wheels into your very own custom work of art.

How easy is it to install Truck Champ’s Chrome Accessories?

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Truck Champ’s custom designed chrome accessory parts typically take only minutes to install. They fit the most popular vehicles and perfectly match the OEM chrome. Our selection of products requires no cutting or drilling and for most, you simply “peal and stick” using pre-applied tape that is designed specifically for automotive use. It holds up to heat, cold, water, and all weather factors extremely well and has a spotless track record in terms of its strength.

The following list addresses the uncomplicated installation of some of our most popular chrome accessory and stainless steel products:

• Mirror Covers: Two to a set, these install quickly and easily with the 3M™ automotive 2-sided tape system. Slides right over your existing mirrors.
• Tailgate Handle Cover: Installs easily with pre-applied Red 3M™ Tape. Simply peel and stick. No cutting or drilling, Installs in seconds.
• Door Handle Covers: Sold in sets to cover all of your doors, these install quickly and easily with the automotive 2-sided tape system.
• Window Visor: No-drill application that simply installs with Tape and takes only minutes to accomplish a precise fit.
• Stainless Steel/Fender Trim: Includes UV resistant rubber edge trim for a customized fit, this fender trim installs easily using Stainless Steel hardware.
• Billet, Designer, Harley Davidson, and Liquid Grilles: These distinctive styles install quickly and easily.
• Bumper Guard: Includes hardware to mount directly and easily in front of your vehicle.

If you have any questions with installing any of our products, please contact our customer service line at: 1-888-244-5908

A Quick Look at Truck History and Chrome Accessories for Trucks

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Manufacturers and the public at large viewed trucks mostly as work vehicles until the 1990s when trucks gained in popularity for their style as well as their utility, greatly due to the introduction of the extended cab and influx of vehicles manufactured by multinationals. Truck owners began to seek products, such as chrome accessories, nerf bars, and tonneau covers to add pizzazz to their vehicles. The growing manufacture and development of shiny chrome accessories are providing an even greater avenue for expressing one’s personality through truck enhancement. As a result, truck manufacturers now design and build vehicles that allow easy installation of custom chrome accessories.

Following are some observations that reflect the history of trucks and, specifically, trucks as lifestyle vehicles, ultimately leading to the increasingly popular use of chrome accessories.

• 1915: The Ford Model T pickup truck was manufactured.
• 1933: The world renowned “Ram” symbol was created for use as the Dodge Ram hood ornament – the first chrome accessory?
• 1970: Dodge produced the “lifestyle” pickup to answer the American trend for camping and travel.
• 1973: Dodge introduced the enclosed Club Cab, which allowed drivers to place their valuables inside the truck, therefore protecting them from harm or theft.
• 1981: The D50 mini-pickup was imported by Dodge from Japan.
• 1986: Many pickup trucks were adorned with headlight bezels and upgraded grilles and bumpers, moving toward extended chrome accessory use.
• 1987: General Motors introduced its first new models in years with the GMC Sierra and Chevrolet C/K Series pickup trucks. At that time, this number one automaker had not made changes to its full-size trucks for almost 15 years.
• 1988: Detroit announced that manufacturers sold almost 16 million cars and light trucks in 1988.
• 1995: The Ford F-Series acquired the title of “the world’s best-selling car or truck” in history, an accolade previously held by the VW Beetle.
• 1996: Ford Division trucks outsold competitors by selling 2 million trucks in one year. The F-series by itself sold more than the total of all trucks in the U.S. (excluding including Toyota, Chevrolet, Dodge, and Pontiac-GMC).
• 1999: A partnership of Harley-Davidson and Ford produced an all black, limited edition 2000 Harley-Davidson F-150 pickup truck featuring orange pinstripes and chrome accessories.
• 1999: The combined sales of the Ford F-Series and Chevy Silverado pickup trucks totaled 1.5 million, more than the combined sales of the leading four passenger vehicles.
• 2004: 91,845,327 vehicles were registered in the U.S. as pickup trucks and SUVs, and another 6,161,028 as truck combinations, more than 40% of all passenger vehicles. Sales of chrome accessories soar.
• 2005: Truck demand skyrocketed by almost 37%. The industry reported an adjusted annual sales rate of 20.8 million units for July, which was the highest sales since a record 21.8 million rate in October 2001, the month after the 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S.(when GM introduced zero % financing to spur the U.S. economy and the auto industry).
• 2006: In May, Toyota alone experienced a gain of 6.6% in truck sales to 90,833 vehicles.

Chrome Accessories: Trade Shows

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As a truck enthusiast interested in chrome accessories, there are trade shows that may be interesting to you on the road to enhancing your vehicle. Following is a partial list for you to check out.

TRADE SHOWS 2007

• Mid-America Trucking Show http://www.truckingshow.com/
• SEMA Spring Expo http://www.semaspringexpo.com/
• SEMA Offroad http://www.semaoffroad.com/
• American Truck Dealers http://www.nada.org
• North American Truck Show Boston, MA http://naexpo.com/truckshow/
• The Truck Show http://www.truckshow.com/
• SEMA Show http://www.semashow.com/

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