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new 4500 dually

Old 02-19-2008, 07:26 PM
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new 4500 dually

Just thought you might like a look see.......
Old 02-19-2008, 07:27 PM
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and another view....
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Whats with the filler panel?? No offense it looks kind of crappy, there has to be a better way. Hopefully someone will come up with a body matching filler panel like they did for the Fords a few years back.
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Oh, I love that.
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So now, that is a "legal" California pick up truck, correct? No scales required?
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that is correct. And as far as the filler panel goes, we have tried to have one made that matches the truck and they are at least two months out. But the ones we make now are color matched, and have tie down rings on the top to secure your cargo. It is steel and not plastic. We have some better photos showing how they are shaped, the top is perfect, it's the side bed/body lines that are hard to duplicate within the price we are charging. So we went with the steel one with the rings for now.
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here is a closer look at the top half...
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here is another shot
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and from this shot you can see how we tried to follow the body lines...
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I think it looks great, nice work. Bet it rides horrible without a big 5th wheel. This one has 4.44's?
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Thanks a lot now I can't decide whether I like the regular pickup bed of a B&W custom flat bed the best. What an amazing truck! What transmission did you get?
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That looks sweeeeeeet! great job!
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thats choping ford ***** offfffff idk i think dodge makes everything better than for
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There is a fab shop in Indiana that is making the body matching filler panels. He is using new take off beds and basically doing what your doing. If your interested in maybe getting with him I could get you his contact info (another driver I know bought one). He charging between $2500-3000 for the conversion (bed, mount, filler, paint and so on).
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I did a quick photo editing and removed the filler panel. Doesn't look bad. Gives the truck the 'industrial look'.
It's a work truck, right?

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