9 foot long

[garyt]

i hav a 51 5 window stepside with a 9 foot long bed thats with the tailgate up. anyone ever seen one? all the ole guys tell me they have never seen a bed that long. one fella told me it might have been a military use truck. but it has a single rear tire configuration rather than dually...it is a 3ton truck. i bought it cuz i thought it was really different and i had never seen one myself. am i all alone with my truck or is their another one out there, thanks gary

[OrrieG]

Here is a link to a 53 MOdel 3804 with 9' bed. It in in the 53 manual at the old car site (link below). The information on 3804 is missing from the 51 and 52 manuals but 53 is probably close. I have seen one in person, and I think a couple of years ago there was a thread on them.

http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com...esto/53076.htm

It is rated 1 ton with single wheel rear axle, the next page after my link lists the specs.

[62ChevyII]

Here's one in my back yard, it is a 1949 1 ton.



My 16yr old son has big dreams of building a 4x4 out of it... hopefully we will get started on it before too long.

[garyt]

wow that looks a lot like mine, thanks for the pic, im sure your son will have a oneof a kind 4x4,

[oldcouple]

http://youtu.be/c9Bdg5CrwFA

[BlueJeep]

It's just your standard, run of the mill 1 ton. They all had 9 foot beds when they were single wheel with a bed.

Here's how mine started out:

[MrTucker]

Most 1 tons had a stake bed, or a flat bed - that's probably why the old guys had never seen a bed so long

[lmdangerous]

Mine is a 1951 3800 with the same bed - Mine is a JS code .
LMD

[mknittle]

We have a 51 too.

[duwem]

Yup, saw one in a guys yard once, could not believe how long the bed was!

[dubds10]

There's not many left of these truck from what I've seen, but still enough around. Just bought mine the other week. Now it's getting torn down so I'm gonna put up a build thread for it.

Nate