Poll: Steel or Wood Bed
 

What do you guys like better and why? I'm thinking about wood.

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72 Cheyenne C20
Built 350/T350
AC/PS/PB/AT
Dana60 Leaf
Factory Saddle Tanks
San Diego, CA

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A nice wood bed with stainless stips is the sweetest looking.but for a daily driver where you haul trannys,motors,rearends.i think id go steel.

Wood all the way.
It is the last one with the availability, (in a fleet bed) and it shows the class these rigs had/have.

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'69 G.M.C. 350/350. Trying to clean up the left over damage from the Dope-Smokin-Old-Man
I've been dubbed the Longhorn Freak/Fanatic/Expert, I just hope I can live up to it.
FINALLY got the HORNIAC...a '70 one ton Longhorn with a Pontiac 350/350 and lots of 'personality'. Check out The Longhorn Webite.
If you need a pic posted, E-mail me at longhornmail@yahoo.com
Andy, in Columbus Ohio

steel. it would kill me to watch a nice wood bed rott out. just get a nice linex or rhbino liner and dont ever worry about it.

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69 c-10. turquoise. 350 motor with 400 trans. long fleet. headers and dual flowmaster exhaust. K & N air cleaner, aluminum wheels and radials, stereo system and a bed liner.

Wood, all the way. A nice wood bed is very classy. Just take care of it.

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67 Chevrolet LWB with rebuilt 292. 415 ft. lbs of torque, 4 speed, 3.73 Posi, straight and almost painted.

My first Longhorn had the original wood bed. If yu take care of it, it'll last.
The original owner parked it on the street. He had it from April '70 untill some time in '95. The wood was all original.

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'69 G.M.C. 350/350. Trying to clean up the left over damage from the Dope-Smokin-Old-Man
I've been dubbed the Longhorn Freak/Fanatic/Expert, I just hope I can live up to it.
FINALLY got the HORNIAC...a '70 one ton Longhorn with a Pontiac 350/350 and lots of 'personality'. Check out The Longhorn Webite.
If you need a pic posted, E-mail me at longhornmail@yahoo.com
Andy, in Columbus Ohio

wood would be sweet to havem but they rot too easily, need to have in drier climate and keep covered or,,,,

I'd take wood any day. It holds up much better. I don't know how many rusted out/dented pickup beds I've seen over the years.

Im going steel in my longhorn. 1 reason was cost,& the other is to tighten up the @ss end,so that 383 can get some "bite". The cross sills are 2x3x 1/8 wall tubing,& are tied together with 2x2x1/8,& welded tight. the first 1 ft in on the floor is 12guage smooth sheet,& the center 4x8 1/2ft will be done with 14 guage tread plate. With a Rhino coating,it should last a long time........69Longhorn.

wood

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67 stepside 4x4 Owensville MO mudder67@hotmail.com

My '68 ('67) project (see below) wil have a aluminum floor, held in with dzus fasteners, Was aluminum and option? or did I misread the question? hehehe

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Bryan in South Dakota
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-67 CST originally a 327-4bbl(missing),still has orig.TH400 w/AC,PS,PB,3pc bucket seat,small window,LWB. orig. drk blue w/blue interior. needs serious restoration
-67 CST(plain janer) 283/MT LWB
-2000 Silverado 1/2ton 2wd x-cab w/4th door
***future projects***
A 67/68 CST,SWB,350/TH350,Lowered 5/7. using above listed 67 CST (janer)

Definitely a "Woody" http://67-72chevytrucks.com/board/ubbhtml/wink.gif

I had a wood bed on my 67 and went to a steel one. The rear of the truck seems tighter now. I think the lack of cross suport of the wood type allowed to much frame flex for good handling.. Just my opinion. But a Refinished woody looks real cool

Wood for appearance, but steel for actually doing anything. No matter what I do to my truck, I've got one rule above all...it's still a TRUCK!!!! Which means its future duties will likely involve running parts for other projects I get along the way, heh...

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Project 1970 - soon to be seen at http://milhouse.treylis.org:81/

Its an unspoken rule around my place.....he who drops something in the back of my truck ,will deal with Ole Longhorn. Her haulin days are done.....its time to haul@ss!Sit down ,shut up,& hang on......do use the seat belt!!!!!!!

I've got woooood!!!

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72 long fleet
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