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07-02-2003, 07:57 AM
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Short-Wide?
This'll be a quick one folks...
What is the difference, if there is one, between a short fleetside bed and a short-wide fleetside bed? I've heard the short-wide thrown around a few times, and the fella I bought my bed from said it was a short-wide. I've never seen in a catalog, bed parts for 'short' then 'short-wide'. Are these two terms just used interchangeably, or is there really 2 kinds of beds out there? Did they go 'wide' in a particular year? Just wondering, trying to feed the random info machine. Thanks all..... 
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07-02-2003, 08:09 AM
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they're the same.
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07-02-2003, 08:11 AM
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They are the same bed just called wide or fleetside in different parts of the country.
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07-02-2003, 08:49 AM
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No such thing as Short-wide. Common misconseption is that SWB is "short wide bed". It's actually short wheel base.
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07-02-2003, 11:22 AM
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Thanks for the clarification....I'll spread the word.
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07-02-2003, 02:42 PM
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My Short Wide Bed is Wider than your Short Step Side Bed. I believe this is where the term comes from. I've always called them either a Short/Long Wide or A Short/Long Step It DOES mean Short wheel base but I like to call mine a Short Wide. You say Tomoto I say Tomato
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07-02-2003, 07:07 PM
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I agree, it depends on where you live. Around here we call shortbed fleetsides shortwides and we call shortbed stepsides simply a stepside. And I know SWB means short wheelbase and LWB means long wheelbase but this is just what we have always called them.
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07-02-2003, 07:14 PM
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very interesting. Around here always known them to either be a fleetside or stepside. But I like the short wide term.
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07-02-2003, 08:48 PM
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Hmmm, the word hasn't made it out west yet....j/k
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