Yeah I guess that bed is restorable, for the right person. It’s going to need two new fenders, new wood, new tail gate, and lots of grinding and bodywork. Where as I work for a mechanical contractor and have access to all kinds of metal fairly cheap.
The reason for new fenders if you look closely at them, the farmer who had the truck prior to dad having it, ran duallys. In order to do this he welded a 1/4 x 6" flat bar rolled as a fender flair on the rears to cover the second wheel. When he did this he first got out the ole hot knife and whacked about an inch and half to make clearance for the second wheel. Now, I would like to run duallys again but I would prefer a flatbed to do this.
picture And this truck will probably not be a restoration project as much as it will be used for local trips around town when I need a truck. I will do some body work and probably paint her up fairly nice but no show truck for sure. I have a 50 ford sedan for that that’s no where near either.
When gas went up I got a little jumpy and traded my full size pickup for a VW, pretty drastic change but I have found the money I was sinking into my Hemi in gas does a good job buying parts for the old truck.
Lastly those tools are of great importance while working on the truck :rolleyes:
Sorry Long winded
Birge
