I appologize if this has been covered, but my searching past posts has come up with nothing. Did Chevrolet offer a 1/2 ton long bed truck in 1947-1953. I know GMC did somewhere in there. I looked at a truck over the weekend to possibly buy that is supposedly a 1950 1/2 ton in need of much work. It has a spare tire carrier on the bed side and the fender with the cutout for the spare tire, but it has 3 vertical stake pockets on each bed side. The two closest to the front of the bed are fairly close together. It didn't look like a long bed, and the publications I have list only one wheelbase for 1/2 ton's. The long beds 3/4 ton's I've seen with 3 stake pickets, don't need the cutout fender for the tire to clear. As luck would have it I didn't have anything to measure the bed with to be certain, but it looked like a shortbed. I guess the question here is did chevrolet ever have a shortbed bedside design with 3 stake pockets, and did Chevrolet make a 1/2 ton long bed. sorry this got lengthy, but I looked at this truck unexpectantly, and had nothing to take pictures with or reference to. What was I looking at, or am I just crazy?
Last edited by H.I.; 12/05/2007 9:08 PM.
