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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 21 | thinking...has anyone done an update to their truck by putting a newer style pick up bed on their truck ?
if so any pictures ?
i know it is not original
thanks
raf | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 640 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 640 | Well, not a newer style, but a guy at the Bennington, VT, show this past weekend used Trex instead of wood in his. It looked pretty good. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 120 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 120 | There is a guy who put a '96 chevy short box floor in his '52. (Not me) I am attempting to use a '77 chevy dually bed floor. I will let you know what I am up against. I will send the link of the guy who did accomplish it as soon as I find out where I put it. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 79 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 79 | ive have seen a few people swap newer beds on to older chevys and a hole load more on ebay. like s10 beds,73-87full size trucks, 80's furd ranger beds , and some unrecognizable ones.
in my opinion none of them looked good ,mostly because of body line not being close.
only reason i could see it happening was if you could get it cheap and needed a bed being the old one was damaged beyond use or missing.
but its your truck and most of the time its not what anyone else thinks. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 58 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 58 | I have a '54 Chevy 1 ton that had a '91 fleetside bed on it by the previous owner with fat fenders on the outside. It was hit back in Jan. by a hit & run ruining the bed and needing to replace the rearend and rear suspension. Now I have a flatbed that I built on it. Need to update my pics. Ugly to some but very functional and houses 2 marine fuel tanks at 25 gals each. It has 8 inch airbags between the c-notch and tires good for 2800 lbs. The deck sits at 37" off the ground with 0 psi and at 48" at 140 psi. I used Angelim, it's a type of Ipe. The bed is 8 ft. long and 80" wide (4" shy of 7 ft.)
1954 custom 1-ton (1 of a kind)
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