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PM'ed you! Thanks very much, I will put them to good use. Hopefully I can return the favor or pass it on. Reps sent!
So I'm going back to your comment about the flareside bed on your truck. I saw a pic the other day of a grey truck, think it was an '87 extended cab with an '80-86 flareside bed on it... and it looked sweet. Yours didn't end up looking right?
So I'm going back to your comment about the flareside bed on your truck. I saw a pic the other day of a grey truck, think it was an '87 extended cab with an '80-86 flareside bed on it... and it looked sweet. Yours didn't end up looking right?
Yes, I know the picture you are talking about. It is definitely a matter of taste but I think the grey Supercab looks pretty good. There were a couple flareside crew cabs that sparked my interest including this one. I think it is a good looking truck:
However, mine looked like an atrocity. Part of it is the really high (stock) F350 4x4 suspension needed to accommodate the front Dana 60 axle. It sits so high that the stock 31" tires hardly enter the flareside fender well at all. It looks weird. It would definitely need way bigger tires. The other thing is 9th generation fenders are not as deep, and have the molded in tail lights. My bed just looked skinny and atrophied behind the huge cab. To give it a fair chance I should mock it up again on the shortened frame, but I'm really happy with the look of the short styleside. As much as I love that flareside bed I just don't think it belongs behind a crew cab. I think the styleside looks better, but that is my taste/opinion. Most people who see my flareside mocked up on the crew cab just about blow milk out their nose so that is my other clue.
I was digging through the "Show 'em your current 80-86" picture thread looking for more freewheel shots and found this Supercab flareside creation. Maybe it just needs to be all one color to help tie it together but I'm not real crazy about how this looks either...
Ran across the pic of the grey truck... just so that other readers know what we are talking about...
And it looks like I'm not the only one to try a bullnose CC flareside. This is a low res pic (someone's avatar) of just that. Still kinda hard to tell how it would look on a more "normal" truck without the huge lift and specialized suspension but here it is:
We received the step brackets today - thanks again!
That pic of the grey extended cab you posted is exactly the one I was thinking of - i do think that's a sweet looking truck. It made me think about building one actually, but I see what you mean about yours. Was laughing at your "blowing milk out their nose comment" but I don't think it's that bad. A lot has to do, to your point with color and lines.
I think the flares look best from the back, side, and rear 3/4 view and worst from the front 3/4 view when the bed rails disappear behind the cab. If the paint is mismatched, it's worse... and if there is some kind of line on the bed's fenders that connects with the cab, it's better. Two tone paint or even stripes. Check out the grey flare below, the owner at some point had grey stripes on both lines of the rear fender. I think that pulls it together well...
It makes the eye go to the fender and accents the width. You know its funny how in the '80s I didn't love the flaresides, thought they looked old. Now, I consider these the last "real" flaresides and I think they look old... and classic
In the end though that styleside bed does look really good on your truck
That pin stripe does seem to accent the fender width. Come to think of it my bed that I pulled in the junkyard has a stripe also. It's only on the lower edge of the bevel but has a similar visual effect.
Posting some pics here to show how we ended up modifying the pre-1980 step brackets to work with an '80-86:
Freeman Machine in Clover SC did some nice work on them - appreciate them taking small jobs like this and turning them around so quickly and well.
Spacers were added to the two mounting holes on the upper part of the bracket so that they would fit flush against the crossmember. You can see this in the first pic, the old / modified bracket is in the foreground and the '86 bracket in the background.
Then the lower surface that the step mounts to was levelled (probably restoring it to original shape actually) and slots were drilled to match the '80-'86 bracket. '80-'86 bracket is below, '78-'79 bracket is above
You can see the original look of the pieces earlier in this thread.
Once again thanks to F834 for the older version brackets!
I was digging through the "Show 'em your current 80-86" picture thread looking for more freewheel shots and found this Supercab flareside creation. Maybe it just needs to be all one color to help tie it together but I'm not real crazy about how this looks either...
There go my plans to be the first bullnose, supercab, flareside owner. Anyone know if this truck ever got a paint job?
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