73-87 bedwood for SB fleetsides

[BigChico]

Is there a way to install bedwood on a shorted fleetside, installing it on the bed frame not on top of the sheetmetal?

[tinydb84]

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).

[bbbc10]

You should make a thread.....im looking to put a wood bed floor in mine on top of the floor

[Big Port Jimmy 6]

Google RPO E81. Jay

[hatzie]

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

[andrewmp6]

You can find a early bed which had wood as a option,Or spend a lot of time cutting and fabbing.

[bigblock73]

Originally Posted by andrewmp6

You can find a early bed which had wood as a option,Or spend a lot of time cutting and fabbing.

Short bed fleetsides were never offered with a wood floor.

[andrewmp6]

Learn something everyday,So i guess cut down a early long bed that has wood is about it for him.

[BigChico]

Thanks for all the input... Now I gotta find a square body crew cab..

[hatzie]

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

[ray_mcavoy]

Originally Posted by hatzie

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

Thanks hatzie! Yes, we were able to modify 67-72 crosspieces. We didn't make any attempt at trying to use a 67-72 rear sill though, instead choosing to have a local shop fabricate one along with the flange pieces.

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.

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by ray_mcavoy

Thanks hatzie! Yes, we were able to modify 67-72 crosspieces. We didn't make any attempt at trying to use a 67-72 rear sill though, instead choosing to have a local shop fabricate one along with the flange pieces.

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.

That was smart of them (both).

[STOCKISH]

Hope Mar-K will remake the cross sills!

[72highlander]

Original paint survivor long bed wood floor

[BigChico]

Man, that looks good!