Post your Bed Wood/Metal - Customized/Modified or Stock

[richards72chevy]

Originally Posted by Turtleman

LMAO...

Hey.. if it works for you then its OK

Not mine I got it another site.

[MiraclePieCo]

Originally Posted by richards72chevy

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Be kind of ironic if you hauled a load of pallets.

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[rudy62]

Put a 67 metal bed on my 62. Want to be able to abuse it.

[TypeSL2]

I wanted something that still looked old, but was still wood and could be used. The steel plate that was in there was just plain ugly. Here's the before and afters.





Just cut some pine from home depot, burned it, and installed it using my old bed strips. It doesn't look totally out of place, but it is fully functional. Already took its first 1k# load of scrap to the scrap yard.

James

[DLW]

Originally Posted by TypeSL2

I wanted something that still looked old, but was still wood and could be used. The steel plate that was in there was just plain ugly. Here's the before and afters.





Just cut some pine from home depot, burned it, and installed it using my old bed strips. It doesn't look totally out of place, but it is fully functional. Already took its first 1k# load of scrap to the scrap yard.

James

Nice job there James, that actually looks really good and at home in your truck..

[forestb]

Can you put a sealer over the burnt wood and what happens if you sand it? Does that also work with oak? I really like the way it looks and wanted to try it on my oak wood and then try to seal it instead of using stain.

Originally Posted by TypeSL2

I wanted something that still looked old, but was still wood and could be used. The steel plate that was in there was just plain ugly. Here's the before and afters.





Just cut some pine from home depot, burned it, and installed it using my old bed strips. It doesn't look totally out of place, but it is fully functional. Already took its first 1k# load of scrap to the scrap yard.

James

[par4tom]

Here is my 61 from Pismo Beach Car Show...

[TypeSL2]

Thanks guys. I didn't seal this stuff, because this was a very quick deal. I may go back through and clean it up and seal and/or stain it. Haven't really decided yet.

James

[Nsanehotrodz]

Here is mine!

[step65]

Here is my 65.

[Praxiss454]

Originally Posted by Nsanehotrodz

Here is mine!

What color is that? My 65 was originally GMC Light Red (514) and I've been trying to find some new paint jobs using that color to see what it would look like.

[WOLFMANmike]

Originally Posted by 1939fiat

Here's yours..posted this last week on a thread..
Wood is walnut with 7 coats of marine varnish on the top,3 on the bottom.
I keep a rubber mat on it,as we haul a bunch of "stuff" around..

Rick

what kind of rubber mat ? and where did you get it at ?

[66ChevyMax]

Here's mine, Birdseye Maple:

[joe dirt]

custom bed strips in mine

[brut]

"deutsche eiche"

[62 Barnfind]

English chestnut stain on oak.

[forestb]

Looking for advise. This is what my bed looks like now. My original plan was to install white powder coated bed strips to match the inside of the bed and have oak wood. But I am rethinking that idea and might go with the polished stainless strips. What do you all think would look best?

[forestb]

this is the finish on the wood

[The Rocknrod]

Originally Posted by forestb

Looking for advise. This is what my bed looks like now. My original plan was to install white powder coated bed strips to match the inside of the bed and have oak wood. But I am rethinking that idea and might go with the polished stainless strips. What do you all think would look best?

Polished stainless. There is already quite a bit of white in there now. Wood looks great.

[Raked 64]

Originally Posted by forestb

Looking for advise. This is what my bed looks like now. My original plan was to install white powder coated bed strips to match the inside of the bed and have oak wood. But I am rethinking that idea and might go with the polished stainless strips. What do you all think would look best?

I agree. Polished stainless will break up the white and accent the wood color.
Great looking truck by the way!

[forestb]

Originally Posted by The Rocknrod

Polished stainless. There is already quite a bit of white in there now. Wood looks great.

Originally Posted by Raked 64

I agree. Polished stainless will break up the white and accent the wood color.
Great looking truck by the way!

Thank you both for your complements and you advice. I also think that the Polished stainless will reflect the white anyway and give it a similar effect. I guess I know what to ask for for Christmas.

[Jcox68rt]

I took the inspiration you all gave me from this website and embarked on raising my bed floor up 3-3/4" to be able to route fuel filler hose and vent hose better and out of the bed floor. So enter a 1987 square body longbed donor bed, rust free, and many, many cutting wheels later. I'm still not 100% done, but close enough to post up what I did. I followed Robber Grins idea to raise the bed sills up, thank you! And then started measuring and cutting, and more cutting.

[Alberta65]

maple plywood is all a man needs in life haha

[verdell]

Originally Posted by Jcox68rt

I took the inspiration you all gave me from this website and embarked on raising my bed floor up 3-3/4" to be able to route fuel filler hose and vent hose better and out of the bed floor. So enter a 1987 square body longbed donor bed, rust free, and many, many cutting wheels later. I'm still not 100% done, but close enough to post up what I did. I followed Robber Grins idea to raise the bed sills up, thank you! And then started measuring and cutting, and more cutting.

Nice job. The 87 wheel tubs bolted to your 60-66 bed with no issues?

[Jcox68rt]

Originally Posted by verdell

Nice job. The 87 wheel tubs bolted to your 60-66 bed with no issues?

They directly bolt to the bed floor and I drilled four holes into my inner bedside to bolt them to the bed sides. When I find two more 80's wheel tubs I'll cut them up and weld them to these wheel tubs and fill the new gap behind them where they are 3-3/4" taller.
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