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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Savannah, GA
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73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
Is there a way to install bedwood on a shorted fleetside, installing it on the bed frame not on top of the sheetmetal?
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Re: 73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
I am going to do a wood bed floor. I build a raised frame to put it on (I removed the floor to clear the frame and suspension).
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Diggin The SquareLife
Join Date: Dec 2010
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Re: 73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
You should make a thread.....im looking to put a wood bed floor in mine on top of the floor
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Re: 73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
Google RPO E81. Jay
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Re: 73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
Ray McAvoy restored an E81 fleetside. Gorgeous work too. GM painted the wood. Looks better varnished...
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=376467
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Louisville,Ky
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Re: 73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
You can find a early bed which had wood as a option,Or spend a lot of time cutting and fabbing.
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Re: 73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
Short bed fleetsides were never offered with a wood floor.
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Re: 73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
Learn something everyday,So i guess cut down a early long bed that has wood is about it for him.
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Savannah, GA
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Re: 73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
Thanks for all the input... Now I gotta find a square body crew cab..
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Re: 73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
E81 is the RPO for the 73-80 wood bed fleetsides. It was not available after 1980.
The short and long fleetside 67-72 could be optioned with wood floors. You'll need the E81 rear crosspiece, cross sills, and the flange pieces around the other three sides. Mar-K sells the bed wood but nobody repops the sheet metal right now. Ray Mcavoy replaced the bed wood in his grandfathers' E81 optioned truck. I believe he modified 67-72 crosspieces and rear sill. I can't find the thread he posted about the process. http://rmcavoy.freeshell.org/77Truck/photos2.html http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=432498
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Location: Sherman, ME
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Re: 73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
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A few years ago, a member of this site contacted me via PM after seeing the tread I posted on Grampa's truck. A friend of his was restoring a truck with an E81 wood bed and needed some additional info/photos to help recreate some of his pieces that were completely rusted away. I was just talking with him again on the phone a couple months ago and he mentioned having shipped his old rear cross sill to Mar-K so they could use it as a template. So it sounds like Mar-K may soon be adding 73-80 E81 rear cross sills to their list of offerings. |
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Re: 73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
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Re: 73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
Hope Mar-K will remake the cross sills!
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Re: 73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
Original paint survivor long bed wood floor
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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Re: 73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides
Man, that looks good!
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