Why is it so hard to find stepside beds
 

I've been looking for a stepside box on CL ever day for a couple months now parts are getting hard to find! Why is that more people looking for these trucks or is it from when scrap price was up?

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The crazy thing is the tailgate. Try to find one of those for under $300. And I think that is probably the longest produced body part of all time

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They probably rust out quicker in your area in my area everyone wants fleetsides so there is usually atleast one on craigslist in my area I prefer them so that's a plus for me cause they i dually go for $200-400 complete other than they all need wood

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If I had my guess they probably didn't make as many of them.

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In person i have only seen maybe 10 step sides ever,And i have seen a ton of these trucks in person.And they did make a step side short bed and long bed.The long beds are rare as rare can be.

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I've owned 3 stepside trucks and still have one in just looking for a extra bed to make a little trailer

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funny thing i i see them every once in a wile around here on ksl i saw a stepside 4 wheel drive for sale for about a grand i think it was an early 80s it had a longbed stepside i beleive

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Stepsides are easy to come by here. I currently have 3 of them. They look good on 4wd trucks.

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Look where he lives tho,All salt on the roads in the winter over the years these trucks don't stand a chance.

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Alot of stuff here is rusty Cause i live in salt lake but yeah that could be true

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they made less of them and a lot of people like short wide beds then there is rust issues... building mine I found parts but they were expensive... I see a lot of guys improvising with angle iron on the underside

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If you got the money http://www.mar-k.com/ has them in pieces you could build one.

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I'd love to find a square body 8' stepside bed for my 83. I found a complete truck for sale in southern cali with the 8' bed, too far to drive though.

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Up here, it was cash for clunkers. Everyone cleaned out their backyards years ago and they melted down a lot of them. The one stepside I was lucky to find in the junkyard was gone the next day.

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Its real tough to find stepside stuff in NY. I have two that I've been lucky enough to find parts from people that stashed parts away. I also have a 8' stepside box waiting for the right truck.

And its the fenders and steps that rust out. Those are the parts that are difficult to get up here.

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My father has a long bed step side 72 GMC 4x4. It is total junk, rusted out really bad. It may be fixable, but would not want to try. Let me know if anyone is interested in the parts, will be replacing with a fleetside bed.

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you never asked if I had steps I think I have two sets want me to look?

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Bob, I would be interested in 8' stepside box steps? Thanks

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Well I was having trouble finding 6' fleetside bed for the 79 and finally on CL found a pair of right and left panels in decent condition for 150.00 from a couple nice guys. So deals are still out there just keep looking. I also scored a nice hood from a 78 truck for 50.00, sorry had to brag:metal:

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There is a guy here in town that has been trying to sell a really nice pair of stepside fenders with long steps. He has had them for a couple of years. I guess the price scares most people away around here

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In East TN
https://tricities.craigslist.org/pts/5343153431.html

https://tricities.craigslist.org/pts/5366926476.html

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The 2nd one is a long bed stepper

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Not mine, located in Indiana http://louisville.craigslist.org/pts/5369365862.html

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I have some lwb steps .

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Living on Long Island (ny) I could honestly say I've seen 3 total step side short beds. I'm always looking on Craigslist and only came across one long bed. I got lucky finding mine

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True, cars / trucks are all the rage right now, all the motorcycle chopper shows have been replaced with hot rods or rat rods or other car make over shows.

And you have the Mecum Jackson Car Auction TV show to thank for the over inflated prices, with sellers pricing their cars/parts for what the "potential" is

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Amen to that, not even for the step side, but for a regular truck, did someone go around stealing them at one point, I can't tell you how many trucks for sell I have seen minus the tailgates.

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Wait What? You want a tailgate to make a trailer, LOL, dang bro, there are people looking for a tailgate to make a truck, ha ha

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Having participated in the program myself, if it was anything like the one in California I doubt that's where these trucks went, as the cars/trucks had to be in running / driving condition and have a current registration. Current registration means also insured.

I bet lots of these trucks in your parts, and in any parts for that matter fell off of the Motor Vehicles registrations years and years ago therefor they would not qualify for the Cash for Clunkers buy back or it would be cost prohibitive to SMOG them, Insure them, and Register them first, and if anyone did, then why not just keep em and drive em. ha ha

I bet most of them were bought for $300 bucks by Pick N Pull outfits and the like just to be towed off of the property and parted out and scrapped.

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No emissions requirements here, and I'm pretty sure if you could get them to the yard they'd take 'em. I've had plenty of junkyard workers talk about how many good condition trucks they had to crush during it when I ask them about parts.
They ran the engines dry til they stopped and couldn't part the vehicles out at all. They had to be crushed. This is all the info I hear around here when I ask around at least. I was too young to pay attention when it was actually going on.

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I know of (2) in a local yard that I would not mind bringing home to make myself my own matching trailer

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Most stepside trucks were bought as work trucks or fleet trucks, they got used/abused and tossed in the scrap heap eons ago.

Deals are still out there, just have to be patient. I got my rust free (but banged up) tailgate from a local scrap collector for a measly 10 bucks. However, it would be nice if somebody reproduced filler hoses and a left fender with a gas door.

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What about a bed like this? Former Sheffield Utilities meter reader truck. D ad bought from them about 1990.

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If you want to find more long bed stepsides than you can shake a stick at, just go to Saudi Arabia. They cant get enough of them over there.