UTility grade bed wood? stock type

[Winter]

"Winter, did you cut yours into planks to fit the bed strips,, or just bolt the whole thing down over the top?" streetcar


I removed all the old bed boards and metal strips, cut the marine plywood to size in one piece, and bolted it in directly to all the steel bed cross braces using small carriage type bolts. The side edges of the plywood bed are not visible. This was 8 to 10 years ago. I think I used a couple of solid oak strips too (painted also), maybe on the sides or underneath the bed as spacers on top of the bed cross braces. Painted it with forest green polyurethane porch paint to match the truck, a 1969 GMC shortbed step side, straight 6, 3 on the column farm truck in good shape. Marine plywood is very resistant to rot and warpage, and is tough also. I guess it has a lot of good glue in it.

The truck is currently in another state right now so I can't verify the exact bed configuration now.