never seen any documentation, but GM didn't waste any time on masking, with the years the wood was black it would have been done separate from the bed metal - later years they started painting the bedwood the same color as the metal bed parts - I would guess the black floor beds would have had "natural" bolts, but that could as easily have been some black anodizing as cad, and the same with the skids

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics