Stepside vs Fleetside

[WhippinSaw]

Here's my Fleetside stepper

[LostMy65]

Are shortbed fleetsides longer than shortbed stepsides?
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[endlessearth]

Originally Posted by WhippinSaw

Here's my Fleetside stepper

Oh my! That is so nice.

[Bowed]

Originally Posted by LostMy65

Are shortbed fleetsides longer than shortbed stepsides?
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I'm just guessing here , but I think somebody cut down a long bed to their liking . Fleet side and step side bodies are the same length .

[mr andrerson]

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Here's my Fleetside stepper
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diggin the trim on yours whippinsaw!!!

[gimmy 64]

I don't hate step sides but the thing that bothers me the most is that gm took the cheap route and put the 55 bed on a 60-66 truck and did not match the bed to the truck. where as the fleetside bed flows with the body of the truck. the stepside bed is kind of like when some one puts a late model bed on a old truck.

[WhippinSaw]

Didn't realize until recently I have a 63 chevy wrongbed. It appears someone put a step side on my fleet side. Guess it doesn't matter since I have had the truck for 30 years and never noticed before someone on the forums pointed it out. So I have a little of both.

[Turtleman]

LOL... Fleet on the left side,,,, step on the right side?...

I own a fleet now,, but in truth I'm a step kinda person.. I just like the lines of the step better and I didnt have to deal with the wheel wells on the inside of the bed.. Its all a personal choice though.. I'm still in the market for a 64 to 66 step.

[LostMy65]

Originally Posted by WhippinSaw

Didn't realize until recently I have a 63 chevy wrongbed. It appears someone put a step side on my fleet side. Guess it doesn't matter since I have had the truck for 30 years and never noticed before someone on the forums pointed it out. So I have a little of both.

Longbed stepsides seem to be few.
Yours is one of the best looking I've ever seen.
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[jtrichard]

Whip other it appears in this pics that it has a fleet-side bumper what makes people think it was a fleet originally?

[62chevy302]

Originally Posted by jtrichard

Whip other it appears in this pics that it has a fleet-side bumper what makes people think it was a fleet originally?

my guess is the trim.

[WhippinSaw]

Originally Posted by jtrichard

Whip other it appears in this pics that it has a fleet-side bumper what makes people think it was a fleet originally?

When I got the truck, the cab was white and the bed was red. The bed wood was half way gone so I thought the wood must of been there a while and must of come with the truck. I kind of suspected something back then but just wrote it off to crazy 60's colors.
I always thought the bumper was a little wide for the truck, I even bring red safety cones to car shows so no one hits their knee. But then again I didn't think I had a wrongbed until someone pointed out the fleet side trim.
I think the step side has a more antique or old school look and the fleet side has faster and more modern lines. These trucks are just a couple years apart but the stepper looks much older.

[BigHappy661]

I'm the second owner of my 1965 c10 big back window long bed step side and I changed it in to a fleet side if I had a small window I would left it a step side but I have a big back window so I made it in to a fleetside I have both beds still trying to sell a long bed step side in the California desert Is hard

[bonehead]

Originally Posted by BigHappy661

I'm the second owner of my 1965 c10 big back window long bed step side and I changed it in to a fleet side if I had a small window I would left it a step side but I have a big back window so I made it in to a fleetside I have both beds still trying to sell a long bed step side in the California desert Is hard

I have been looking for a long step side bed, if you bring it to NC I will buy it.

[jonathan-m]

Originally Posted by Bowed

I'm just guessing here , but I think somebody cut down a long bed to their liking . Fleet side and step side bodies are the same length .

That's my truck there, and that fleetside bed is a factory shortbed not a cut down long bed.

[Brown62]

WippinSaw, There is a picture of a lwb stepper with side chrome on page 3 of the post called "factory 65 chevy assembly picture". Must of been an option.

[WhippinSaw]

Originally Posted by LostMy65

Longbed stepsides seem to be few.
Yours is one of the best looking I've ever seen.
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Thanks for the kind words lostny65

Originally Posted by Brown62

WippinSaw, There is a picture of a lwb stepper with side chrome on page 3 of the post called "factory 65 chevy assembly picture". Must of been an option.

I saw the post of the factory stepper with the trim here http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=455059&page=3
It could of been an option on my truck as my truck had the deluxe options.
Just when I thought the truck was finally coming out its right back in the closet, guess I'll never be sure if its a wrongbed or not.

[Bowed]

Originally Posted by jonathan-m

That's my truck there, and that fleetside bed is a factory shortbed not a cut down long bed.

Ok thanks . So is it the way the picture was taken ( optical illusion ) and the 2 bodies are really the same original factory length .. or is there another explanation for the difference seen in the picture ? I have a 65 short step so I'm curious .




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[TJ's Chevy]

Just for kicks, here's my stepper.

[TJ's Chevy]

Originally Posted by WhippinSaw

Didn't realize until recently I have a 63 chevy wrongbed. It appears someone put a step side on my fleet side. Guess it doesn't matter since I have had the truck for 30 years and never noticed before someone on the forums pointed it out. So I have a little of both.

Love that wrongbed truck! The long steppers are not all that common! Sweet job!

[RollinKaos]

I love them both, I always like the steppers as a kid. I have a long fleet right now and I love the look of them slung low. Now a stepper long bed just looks wrong to me, just my .02

[vinco]

I'm diggin' the long-stepper! I love 'em so much I got 2 of them - a 63 and a 64!

[LostMy65]

I've always thought the stepside with the small back window looked older / more classic / meaner / more hotroddy. The fleetsides look more sleek / refined / newer - especially with the BBW.
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When I first got my 65 it was a dark blue fleetside with a white stripe down one side. I wanted a short stepper because I thought they looked like I mentioned above - mean and hotroddy. When I totalled my 65 in the early 80's, I built it back up a short stepside.
I still like the old mean look.
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But since I've got her back I've been nostalgiccally thinking of making her a fleetside again.
Also, I'm finding the stepside has limitations in bed use.
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[Gianyveedub]

I like the fleetside for longbeds, but for short beds I like the step side.