well i agree i will regret selling the bed but as for ruining the truck it is nowhere near stock right now and wasent when i got it. i played around with photo shopping a flatbed on it and i think it will look cool. now if i had another just like it with all original equipment and matching numbers it would look just like it did 40 years ago when i got done. lol but yall are right im gonna keep the bed in case i want to go back. i still have a 84 chevy truck that somebody gave me that has no engine in it that i still havent brought over here, so maybe i can get it over here and grab the parts i need and sell the rest for scrap. with that and the rest of the scrap metal i have around here including a pile of copper i can make a few hundred bucks.

that sound like a better idea?
thanks yall....
John