Ron, Thanks for confirming I'm not crazy
when I said I saw a post about bed wood being painted body color. It was your post about it that I recalled.
The question in my mind is whether the angle strips on older trucks would have been painted body color and THEN the prepainted wood installed with the other bed strips prepainted black and all the hardware left unpainted. It would make sense to me that painting would be done on both the wood and metal parts, and then the wood installed. But that's just a supposition on my part. My bed was too rusty to determine if that scheme was used.
