the flatbed looked better, if you ask me.

 

You did that with the bed still attached? I'm gonna start my bob this weekend. Do you think it would be easier to pull the bed off to do it? And can I see a picture of the inside of the bed?

 

so what are you doing with the better looking flatbed? up for sale?

 

I like the look of the flat bed, looked good. Why the change? For me the flat bed does no good, need to haul wood and nat.

 

i did do it with the bed sitting on the truck. but my frame was already choped so eveything i cut off had nothing below it. you might want to take it off. i took 18 inchs out.

umm, ya u can come pick it up in MA

nicely said. it does no good. sure i could throw my spare tire on it. but i wanted to haul wood, bikes, my atv. now i can do more stuff. love it.


its done. pics 2maro. still need to put a coat of paint on the cab.

 

whoa dude.....you're not supposed to use smileys like that on this board...you probably should edit that out before a mod sees it and jumps down you're throat...


and i'm with peow130..i liked the look of the flatbed better than a bobbed longbed.......

 

someone should start a flatbed vs bed thread becuase i dont care. i ran the flatbed for 2 years, and it sucked. forgot to menction i got the bed for free.

 

I love them both. I love the look of a bobbed bed (and understand exactly why you got the longbed in the first place), and the flatbed looked really badass. I agree with you, I thought about going flatbed for a while, but I wouldn't be able to use the truck how I use it now, which would defeat the purpose of me having a truck in the first place.

Nice work!

 

ah.....................944

 

sorry if this is off topic but:

i have two long bed 4x4 84's, did they ever make a long bed 4x4 with the jap bed like that, both mine are the american style but i would perfer that style, alot easier to tie stuff down in!

 

yeah in canada..
and i'm sorry akaphilly, but that bed looks like it's pretty rough..

why was the flatbed so bad?

 

heres the pic. cut off wheel and a plumb bob, and i was able to weld 95% of the whole thing. i really like how the second gen bed as bolt on inner panels

 

not sure man. lets see a pic of your bed?

read. or stop posting. the bed is way older then u, i live in a rust area. its actaully the best shape bed of this era i have ever seen. u dont no anything... anyways i cut most the rust out. and fixed it with my uber skillz yo..

 

you know i used to live in spokane and i thought i knew what rust was, but i was wrong! now after living in alaska where we get alot more rust problems i realize i was used to high desert conditions that stuff doesn't rust as bad as it does in other places. maybe you should take that into account. i think it looks pretty decent, better than most the beds i see up here of that vintage.

I will take some pics of my long bed and others of the same year and newer if i ever get home when it is light out ( gets dark here now at 430, damn daylight savings!!!)

 

Hell, i was going to get a flatbed just to haul my quad.
The width of the tires in the front makes it hard to fit in the bed, plus if i got racing width A-Arms i'd be screwed.

Bikes? Straps.
Wood? Racks...

from the pictures, it looked like you got a bed missing corners at the cab, and then gaping rust holes.. looked bad imo.

 

Is that a 944 i see?

 

looks good, i wanted to see how you handled the ridges in the bed, because i thought that would be the biggest problem. Thanks for the picture, how long did it take if you dont mind me asking?

 

i spent 3 hours after work getting it all cut and mocked up. and preped for welding. then the next day i welded it all.. nice and slow. prolly another 3 hours till i had bondo on. i was a lil skeptical to do it at first cuz the rust but it really was easy


ya guys its a 1984 944. non turbo. needs reference sensors and i am slackin to get them.

peow.. stop posting in this thread. go make your wooden flatbed for your highschool project. that will be super cool ! i'm willing to bet that camaro is your dads.

 

Hopefully I'm clear on this. You got a long bed, is that 8'? You took out 18", leaving you with around 6.5'? So now you pretty much still have the funcionality of a short bed but awesome approach/departure angles with the bob?

 

it was a 84 1 ton truck, if he puts a short bed on there and centers the wheel wells, then he will have a few inches between the bed and cab? And that is why he is going with the long bed and then bobbing it. Sounds right to me, and it looks nice.