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Hittin E-Z Street on Mud Tires
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Wa.
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
Just like every other question like this, its all personal preference. BTW I'm not putting down OP, I ask these kind of questions all the time haha!
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: So.Cal
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
Here's my take fwiw, shortbeds look better and are worth more.
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Location: Mt Airy, MD
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
Heavy duty trucks, such as Mack, Peterbuilt, Kenworth, etc. get lengthened and shortened as common practice when re-outfitted after it's first run on life. We have a local shop here that builds used trucks. They'll take a box van and put a horse van body on, stretch and convert from single to tandem, shorten and put a 5th wheel on. Trucks have been getting reconfigured from the beginning. Although that has been for practical reasons till now when it's purely cosmetic... except easier to parallel park
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Location: Northern Nevada
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
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I LOVE my 72 long-bed. First truck I've owned I can actually close the tailgate on 8' lumber. Course it's a driver/work truck. I suppose I'd feel differently if I wanted a "sport truck", which I have as well.
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Tony 71 Custom Deluxe, SWB, 2WD, 402, A/C. I developed an assembly kit for restoring the (a) truck from the ground up. My build thread, and more on the assembly kit https://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/...d.php?t=730025 |
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Join Date: May 2014
Location: Matamoras, PA
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
I typically like 2wd lowered trucks to be short beds, while 4wd higher riding trucks to be long bed. There are exceptions, of course.
Odd enough, though, my truck is an original short bed, but the previous owner at some point cut the frame and welded a new one on the back half, behind the cab. |
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
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Anyways, its funny I actually love the look of the short 4x4's. - this is why I bought a K5 Blazer... If Shorbeds are 'cooler' than a longbed, then surely a SHORTER bed must be cooler than a shortbed! This is rock solid logic! ![]() |
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Join Date: May 2015
Location: Shapleigh, Maine
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
I left my long-bed long for the same reason why I won't ever swap the I6 for a V8--originality.
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Location: Matamoras, PA
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
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Overall, I bet thousands of trucks have been dragged out of fields, just to convert down to a short bed and enjoy. those truck otherwise may still be sitting in that field, (or worse, end up in a pick-n-pull yard) Every longbed that gets shortened may put one more truck back on our roads when it could have easily suffered a fate of rotting away or worse, being sold to China to become a new waffle maker, only to be resold back to us...... If it helps keep these trucks on the road and out of wrecking yards, I am all for it. |
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Join Date: May 2014
Location: Matamoras, PA
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
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Hittin E-Z Street on Mud Tires
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
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And as a side note.... Has ANYONE noticed the prices on good wagons now a days? It's freaking' nuts! For YEARS they were whored out, parted, and crushed to repair their two door cousins, now, there's hardly any left, and it's "cool" to drive an old wagon again, hence prices have gone nuts because there just aren't many anymore. And I've been to Cali twice now... yes, you guys have it good!
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Indanapolis, IN
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
IMO, long beds are ugly.
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Location: Clearwater Beach Florida
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
Here is my before and after. I hope that helps explain it.
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: South Westerlo, New York
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
Boy, it sounds like the long beds are the minority. most like short beds, many like the extra long longhorns, I'm sad, me and my poor old long bed....... LOL
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Lowell AR
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
I think most people like what they get use to looking at. I like the proportions of the whole vehicle to look right. I like that the back of the cab is the center, the same distance to the front and the same distance to the rear on a long bed.
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: on the road
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
I've had both like both, but would rather have a suburban.
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Location: Berne IN
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
I like all of them- even the long steppers don't look bad to me- especially the K versions
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As looks go, give me a break.......A SWB just like this truck, for example, might look nicer.....but only by a pinch. ![]()
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Tony 71 Custom Deluxe, SWB, 2WD, 402, A/C. I developed an assembly kit for restoring the (a) truck from the ground up. My build thread, and more on the assembly kit https://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/...d.php?t=730025 |
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
I'm a true 67-72 fanatic. Therefore, I like them all.
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At the body shop.
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Land of fruits and nuts.
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
I am a square body guy that fell into the 67-72 trap
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
Nothing other than a 67 short bed ... all the rest are parts trucks !
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
Ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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Tony 71 Custom Deluxe, SWB, 2WD, 402, A/C. I developed an assembly kit for restoring the (a) truck from the ground up. My build thread, and more on the assembly kit https://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/...d.php?t=730025 |
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laying low
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Location: Searcy, Ark. USA
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
We all have our favorites but the one thing we have in common is we are all here because we love our trucks. Well, except for one or two who I am not sure why they are here.
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: canton ga
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Re: Why convert to short bed?
I own 1 longbed , a 72 4x4 just recently bought it and love it ,if the upholstery shop would just finish my seat . I have a few shortbeds that I love too and then there is Ton ,my 72 Dually ,I love them all .
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