68-72 reproduction long fleet bedsides

[Dano69c10]

Some friends and I have taking some LWB bedsides apart and we are consulting with some manufacturing engineer friends about doing some repros.

To keep costs down and not go into the red we see us being able to manufacture the outside LWB bed side sheetmetal only.

The good news is that we plan to manufacture in the USA (California), and yes, we actually used real chevy bedsides as our mock-up models. To keep retail prices down we would be the only distributor.

The bad news is that after doing analysis, we are going to have to run the machine and dies until they pretty much disintigrate, and have to sell 99% of bedsides we make. We might also have to use a different guage steel.

We do not plan to get rich off of this venture (no greed!). We want to keep more of these great trucks on the road.

The reason I'm posting this is to see if there is interest in the outside fleetside shells being made or would people only buy complete bedsides.

If this is successful, we would like to make repro doors that fit (designed from actual chevy doors), and cab parts (roofs, dashes, inside cab sheet metal etc.). We have also started taking a high hump A/C cab apart.

Dano