metal floor in '49 3100 pickup bed

[dangould]

I have decided it would be better not to have a wood floor in the '49 Chevy 3100 I am converting. I want to weld in a metal floor in its place.

Does anyone have any advice or information about how to do this? I was talking with someone here in Colorado who thought we would have to put in wood UNDER the metal floor to take up the space that the wood planking would have taken up. Does that square with the experience of anyone else,on this board?

Any insight would be appreciated.