If someone could produce rust free replacement beds in short and long wheel base, what would you be willing to pay?

 

$800.........

 

I am working on making this happen.

 

here we go again.

 

Here we go again?

Has this been done successfully?

 

Here are the retail prices for repro (longbed) repair metal:

$280 each....RH/LH bed sides (single fuel door, square)
$500 each.... full bed floor
$800 each.... RH inner panel - LH is unavailable?
$125 bed sill
$100 head panel

Dunno if the quarters wrap around to include the tail light areas. Seems to me that few of the inner structures are unavailable.

 

Southern trucks Co. up North sellers of beds are outrageous

 

If you had the metal working skills and were capable of making some of your own curvature dies, then maybe you could rebuild old truck beds for resale. Profit would be in rebuilding the easily removable panels from the entire truck and refurbishing them all for resale. you'd have to sell for 75% of retail to make it worth your while. thought about it myself but I no longer live on an acreage with lots of yard and a 30 x 80 quonset. Strip down truck, clean and repair, inventory, market/advertise, have wife to take orders, kids to ship orders and enough money in the bank to pay the bills for 6 months = 50% chance of success. Go for it

 

The idea would not be a full time venture. I would use the inner bed of readily available trucks from 1980-1994 and either refurbished original panels, or reproduction bedsides.