Is cutting a 1st gen bed sacrilegious?

'81 pick-up with a bed that I would consider serviceable with minimal rust and dents

All I want to use are the bed sides as skins..but I would rather not go to toyota hell doing it. What are your thoughts?

 

save an original bed !! , sell the bed .. and buy some fiberglass ones ..
http://www.toyotafiberglass.com ..



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x2 on the fiber glass and if you want to sell tha bed let me know I could use a new one

 

do not cut the bed. that is all.

 

Plenty people cut these beds. It always sucks to see these old trucks getting cut up, but no, it's not sacrelidge. If it's your truck, do what you want with it, but if you can find another bed in worse shape to cut up, maybe do that and save a nice one.

For most people, unless the only thing they spend money on is their truck, the fiberglass beds are just too expensive (but totally worth the cost IF you can afford it). I really do hope to have one one day though.

 

You will die a slow painful death. Like being married.

 

I'm not dead set on even running skins, the plan was to build a tube flat bed but skin it with the bed sides. The fiberglass is nice but on the pricey side, plus the shipping has to be a headache.

what is a 1st gen bed worth?
I guess I could get some other things I've been wanting?

pm me if you are interested.

 

Cut it all the cool kids are doing it, its yours anyway.

I wasnt scared to hack

 

its not gonna be worth all that much. my opinion?

 

i think it looks cool
u did a great job on making it a short bed

 

yea i wanna bob mine too but i dont know how to do it and i dont know how to weld or anything. its for an 87. i just dont like how long the bed is

 

Ill be up in spring in a couple weeks maybe Ill come look at it see if its better than mine

 

yeah give me a shout.

 

i've seen some for sale for 5-600$ if they are in good condition. that is on the high side though.

 

Thats exactly how i feel. I hate it when i see a perfectly good bed chopped up/beat to hell, especially considering how long and hard it took me to find a decent(not perfect: lots of dents/scratches/3 rustholes) one for my truk. (not to mention the price!!!)

But i guess to each their own.

 

why bob a longbed???? why not just transplant a short bed onto the frame....Lol

 

cuz longBOBs look awesome haha. it woudl be alot harder to put a shortbed on it it wouldnt it? b/c of the differences in wheelbase. or maybe there the same. who knows

 

No the wheelbase is different and I don't think the wheel wells would line up...

 

Yea they dont line up. Hey I got 2 mint shape short beds. If you do line them up there would be a big gap in between the back of the cab and the front of the bed. I think about a 9 inch gap...