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| | | | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 22 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 22 | Hello- wonder if anyone here has ordered bed wood planking for their panel truck. Mine is a canopy express, but I think it is the same as a panel for bed dimensions. Which company gives the best value? Thanks!
Cap'n Mark | | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 627 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 627 | Don't have a panel and haven't tried the others, but Jim Carter's bed wood for pickups is excellent quality. oldchevytrucks.com
Mike Barnes
1950 GMC 1-ton pickup
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 22 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 22 | Thanks, 50GMC. Will be ordering a kit from them today.
Cap'n Mark | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 5 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 5 | I have been looking for a kit for my 61 abnd cannot find one so i think i'm going to get one for a long bead fleet side and cut it down. | | | | | Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 | Have you tried doing the Stovebolt Google (from the menu link above) for "bed wood" and variations of it. I did "bed wood" and came up with several gallery submissions that have good comments specifically about their beds.
Try "bed" and "wood" separately.
Peg
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 22 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 22 | Peg and others- thanks for the input- I am in contact with a guy from Jim Carter's about a custom cut wood bed... seems there's no patterns around for a panel (same as my CE).
Cap'n Mark | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 424 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2000 Posts: 424 | You could also try Bruce Horkey in Minnesota. ( www.horkeyswoodandparts.com ) Bed wood is all he does and he does a good job of it. Has patterns for lots of strange stuff, maybe for your can-ex too? | | | | | Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,780 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,780 | Originally posted by Barry Weeks: You could also try Bruce Horkey in Minnesota. ( www.horkeyswoodandparts.com ) Bed wood is all he does and he does a good job of it. Has patterns for lots of strange stuff, maybe for your can-ex too? I noticed the strange stuff right away......it's a furd!  .......g | | | | | Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 | Have you seen the job Paul Hardy did with his \'58 Panel in the gallery? Peg
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 32 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 32 | Paul if youre listening, let us know how you did the bed in yours. I tried to Email you about this but did not hear back.
Has anyone out there done one of these conversions?
My concern in using one of these kits is that in a panel or burb the floor would not be sealed from exhaust, water or noise unlike the solid piece that comes in these trucks.
Do you have to put a sub-floor in, made of wood or metal sheet?
Chuck | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | Chuck - the TF panels and burbs have a single piece of ply for a back floor, grooved to fit the skid strips, and there is no such thing as a 'conversion' to change it to individual planks like the pu - Mark is talkin about an AD Canopy Express - I don't know about the CE, but I thought the AD's also had a single sheet of ply for the back floor - it's a structural part of the body
Bill | | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 | For what it's worth, the early AD panels were planked. Plywood came later. My 47 still has the original planks in it.
Don't lose your head to save a minute,
You need your head, your brains are in it.
Burma-Shave (1947)
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 4 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 4 | I couldn't find a kit so I went to Home Depot and bought tonge & groove pre-stained oak plank flooring. My floor looks like an expensive living room!
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