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I have ran across, what the seller thinks is a 73 longbed flareside. It is in very good shape. Not a dent on it. The floor is gone which I’m assuming was wood. Original tailgate. What would value be in something like that? Supposedly was on a fire truck.
There was a clean rust free one in this area for sale a long time for $3500. I'm not sure what it sold for or if it sold. a good car trader once told me " there are rare vehicles and there are desirable vehicles, and rare doesn't always mean desirable " .
I was kicking around the idea for my highboy but don’t really like the look that much. Now I’m considering putting it on my 47 dodge wf31. I know I know how stupid right.....
I don’t think it would look bad on the 47. It would just look wrong. As far as the highboy, it could work. Depends on the build. I mean the color, wheel and tire style and such. Finding a highboy bed in good condition is a chore in itself. I am in the middle of moving all my highboy specific crossmembers, spacers and rear mounts to a 2WD bed. Close to 300 spot welds cut out to do the swap. I paid $1,000 for my bed 15 years ago.
I cannot seem to find a highboy bed locally. I’ve had wanted ads out for awhile too. I’m not really in a rush because I have a lot to do before setting a bed on but it’d be nice to know I have one for it. I have the original but it was a farm pickup it’s whole life and it had the snot beat out of it
Best bet is to cut those crossmembers and rear mounts off along with the taller brackets and transfer over to the 2WD bed or at least be able to sell them. I personally feel that this is the best way to go about putting a 2WD bed on our Highboys. You have to move one of the crossmembers anyway unless you want to drill new holes in the frame and add spacers all over the place. Some do it that way and I have no problems with it I just can’t do it that way. I do other things that people hate, lol. You only have to remove the first crossmember starting at the front, skip the next one then remove the next two, skip the next one but you have to remove the short spacer and put your taller highboy one basically right next to where the 2WD one was and remove the rear brackets.
A flare side bed in the right applications looks great. A long bed version in the wrong application, some times not so much. I think 1200 is WAY to much IMO.
