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Originally Posted by Longbed68

So you painted the wood black? Is that how they were from the factory? I've often wondered this. Someone once told me everything was body color (though I was asking about how my dad's '68 should be).

The pre-drilled holes is a huge plus and worth every penny. I did a new bed on a '56 I worked on once and boy was it a pain doing all that myself, especially routing out the holes for the offset washers (though I admit we came up with a rather brilliant method of doing it).
Dan

That's a nice looking truck. The '68 long stepside bed I bought in a pasture still had about 2/3 of its wood and it was black, rotten but black where the paint had remained.