$150.00 rust free bed.

[Engineer]

I must say, the good Lord must be looking out for Engineer. Either that or he just loves Chevy pick-up trucks. 

I had a thread running where I described scoring some cheap OE rust/dent free body parts from the C4C debacle.......

Now here is my latest "find". I was able to score a near perfect bed for my son's rust plagued '79 Chevy K-30.

It is off of a MO National Guard M-1008 K-30.

Other than a few small holes that were for radio antennas the bed is perfect. Those will be easy to fix come time for paint, then the bed will be A+. There is absolutly ZERO rust on this bed. Nowhere, none, zip, nada. The bed floor doesn't even have any dents in it. 

Yeah, it's homely, but for $150.00, I aint complaining.

[79k30guy]

Sweet find.  my bro and I looked an M1008 last week but the body was thrashed..  I like your sons truck.. looks familar. 
love the two tone.  ..well now three tone.. lol.

[oldyeller]

Good score.

[fitz]

 Great score. How was the rest of the M1008?
 Just be carefull when you go to sand the bed to prep it for paint. The Military used a paint called CARC and i guess it's some real nasty stuff to work with.

[Engineer]

Great score. How was the rest of the M1008?

It was clean.

The truck was an old MO National Guard truck. I think it had less than 50,000mi on the odometer.

The fire station that we got the bed from got the M-1008 from a donation project that the MO Department of Conservation currently has running.

These rural F/Ds can get these trucks for free to build brush trucks out of.

These pick-ups are easier to fight brush fires with than say the bigger 2-ton based fire trucks, and as such they are pretty popular.

Don't mind seeing my tax dollars being spent on a sort of permenant reassignment of a good old Chevy K-30.

This particular M-1008 will probably not see another 10,000mi over the next 25 years. 

[fitz]

The Military pick ups do tend to have low mileage. In the last few months I picked up 2 1984 M1028's. One truck had with 47K on it, the other had 14K on it.

[csa dad]

my brother has ya beat he picked up a almost completely perfect bed from a guy for 50 dollars i couldnt belive it when he told me. i figured it was swiss cheese get there an im like you know you stole this bed right. he looked at me an smiled

[HIGHPLAINSDRIFTER]

Right on man!  ;)I just saw an ad for short one here in my area for $300,  The add says "perfect shape", but we'll see.  If the guy still has it when I get paid, I am gonna buy it.