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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 04:07 PM
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newer style bed

Has anyone seen a newer style bed on a 1st gen, did it look good ? my bed is bad
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 06:20 PM
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body lines from anything newer then a 93 are different
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 07:06 PM
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...And would look like crap.
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 07:57 PM
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There's a guy with a W150 shortbed near me with a 2nd gen bed on it. I think it looks weird but not horrible.

I think a slab-sided Ford or Chevy bed would look better.
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 08:22 PM
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I worked for a place that put the bed from a 2000 dually 0n an 89 dually. The new bed sat back about 6" to 8" from the back of the cab, so they made a small filler plate to fill in the gap. It looked kinda odd, but I didn't think it was bad lookin, just different.
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by gear jammer 91"
I worked for a place that put the bed from a 2000 dually 0n an 89 dually. The new bed sat back about 6" to 8" from the back of the cab, so they made a small filler plate to fill in the gap. It looked kinda odd, but I didn't think it was bad lookin, just different.
Sounds to me that would have been a good place for a set of stacks coming up and out.
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Old Aug 10, 2009 | 06:29 AM
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I"ve seen a mid 90's chevy bed on a first gen. It was a show truck and looked very good together. It looked so good I couldn't figure out what they did at first. I thought they just made some fenders for our bed, but wasn't the case. I've got the pic somewhere, might be at work. I'll try to find it.
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Old Aug 10, 2009 | 09:18 AM
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Here's a pic of the truck I was referring to. I hope the attachment comes through.
Well, it didn't. Says invalid file when I try to upload it. Any suggestions?

Last edited by SkinnyBTN; Aug 10, 2009 at 09:40 AM. Reason: no image
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Old Aug 10, 2009 | 10:29 AM
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I've seen a second gen bed on a first gen truck, it looked all sorts of wrong to me. I think it takes too much work to make it look good to be worth the time.
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Old Aug 10, 2009 | 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by SkinnyBTN
Here's a pic of the truck I was referring to. I hope the attachment comes through.
Well, it didn't. Says invalid file when I try to upload it. Any suggestions?
Gotta be one of the following types of file:

gif jpeg jpg pdf png

Also can't be any bigger than 1024x768 or 500kb.
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Old Aug 10, 2009 | 03:19 PM
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I owned a truck with a second gen bed on it. We called it Frankentruck and bought the proper bed. you wanted opinions.
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Old Aug 10, 2009 | 08:06 PM
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I think I got it this time
Attached Thumbnails newer style bed-iphoto-library.jpg  
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Old Aug 10, 2009 | 08:10 PM
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I said earlier I thought it wasn't custom fenders and the more I look at it I'm not so sure.
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Old Aug 10, 2009 | 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by SkinnyBTN
I said earlier I thought it wasn't custom fenders and the more I look at it I'm not so sure.
Skinny, They are 92-00 Chevy/gmc pickup daully fenders on a 1st gen bed.
I think it looks great


The fenders on the dodge just dont have the lights on the fenders of course

I saw some big square dually fenders off a 78 chevy dually on a 93 dodge at calrlise nats this weekend, it was a 93 dodge dually 4x4 with 78 chevy fenders. LOOKED HORRIBLE, didn't fit at all and were more square than factory 1st gen dually fenders
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