wood bed for a fleetside??

[86SilveradoEric]

i love the wood beds of stepside trucks.  does anyone know if it is at all possible to make a shortbed/fleetside that way?

[Snuke87chevy]

Chevrolet actually made fleetside trucks with wooden floors in the seventies.  <www.chevyduty.com> has replacement parts for wooden fleetsides,  guess you could figure out how to make one from looking at the pictures in their catalog.  I've only seen one of these, and it was just the bed and rear half of the frame being used as a fuel trailer on a farm.  The wooden slats were all but gone and a sheet of plywood was sitting on the floor.

[Blazin]

I have only seen one fleetside bed with a wood floor but it was a 70 truck.

[matthuber]

My 75 has a wooden floor, it's a fleetside longbed, There's a bedliner covering it up right now though because the inside of the bed wasn't painted to match the new paint of the truck when my grandfather had it painted.  I can't wait to get another bed to use long enough to sandblast the current bed and put new wood in it... should look pretty sweet when it's finished. If you want a factory wooden bed, look at the 73-76s, more of them had wood than any other.

[Houston Terrell]

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