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Apr 6, 2014 | 04:49 PM

KavemanLeo

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Apr 6, 2014 | 04:58 PM

turbohunter

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Welcome to FTE and congratulations on your purchase and figuring out how to post a pic.
Tell us your plans for it.

Apr 6, 2014 | 07:53 PM

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Apr 6, 2014 | 08:44 PM

spikinfool05

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ya looks like a lot of cab rot and it has the wrong bed on it. should be a fun project.

Apr 6, 2014 | 09:55 PM

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Apr 7, 2014 | 03:50 PM

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That bed is from an 80-86 truck. 53-79 used a smaller and rouder style rear fender. Also step side is a GM term. Ford referred to them as flaresides. Also the rear fender from 80-96 where fiberglass and interchanged onto that bed. Where as the 53-79 rear fenders are steel and being smaller and rounder you would need to redrill new holes into the bedsides to mount them. Plus the tailgates are different in style as well. But I think they should interchange easily. Looks like however you have yourself a nice little project truck.

Apr 7, 2014 | 04:24 PM

c391d

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Bed fenders are definetly from an 80's model truck. If your truck is an original flareside with automatic trans, look at the metal tag on the driver side door. A letter G under where it says trans would indicate an automatic and where it says body the last digit would be a 3 indicating a flareside bed.