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Old 08-12-2011, 08:47 PM   #4
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Re: It's official, flatbed 59 coming

If you're hauling a lot of motorcycles, I'd want the bed floor as low as you can get it to make loading and unloading easier. Maybe to be different, you should swap in an engine cradle and front suspension from say a Pontiac supercharged 3800, or maybe a GXP 5.3 and make it front wheel drive. Then, for the rear use a trailer drop axle so that you can drop the truck way down and not have to raise the bed floor. Then you could drop the tailgate to the ground for a ramp and drive right into the bed.

Seems like a traditional flatbed would be higher than a bed floor because it would have to clear the rear tires, so it would be harder to load a motorcycle.
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