1985 Long Bed Floor and Bedsides

I have a bed floor, bedsides, and front header panel from the 85 Silverado I parted out some years back. I have decided to try to move them onto a new owner.

My original plan was to use the bed on the 79, ended up going with new tooling AMD sides instead.

The bed floor itself is in pretty good shape, the cross sills are a little crusty, a couple have some rust holes and such. Could be made nice with some work, or good for a driver. It has been stored inside for the last four years. It's been back outside for a week or so.

Next post will have some photos of the bedsides, but I'll include pricing information here.

Asking $200 for the bed floor, bedsides, front header panel as a package. No tailgate (was junk) or inner wheel tubs (using on the 79).
Or
$100 for the bed floor, $100 for (both) bedsides, and $50 for the header panel.
Or
Make me a reasonable offer on all or one piece.
Or
Trade for?

Located outside of Saint Louis, MO in Troy, MO 63379.

Please reach out with any comments or questions. I can get more photos if needed.

Thanks!

Photos of bedsides, this was before the bed was disassembled, overall workable, for what I am asking I believe there is enough meat on the bone for someone to put the work on them to get them patched up.

They are original paint. The stainless stone shields were moved onto a new home a couple years back.

By no means perfect, but workable.

Let us know how the bed sides fit and quality. I will need both at a later date.

fast 99 said:

Let us know how the bed sides fit and quality. I will need both at a later date.

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If you look in my 79 thread (link in my signature), post #704 is when I took delivery of them in 2021.

I believe they are worth the asking price, fit is good and I believe they addressed some of the issues that the other old tooling repop bedsides have. @TotalyHucked likely can answer what the improvements and differences are.

Of course, it depends on what your goal is, say oe quality vs laser straight show truck on the body work required. I believe for oe+ quality, a good block sand, couple coats of hi build primer, blocked down will get them 90% of the way there.

I’m pleased with them.

I have questions on how you separated the pieces. Are they all bolted together or is there any cutting flanges/spot welds to separate them?

SquareRoot said:

I have questions on how you separated the pieces. Are they all bolted together or is there any cutting flanges/spot welds to separate them?

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Bedsides from the bed floor? Everything is bolted together except at the rear uprights on the bedsides, there should be one or two tack welds on the upright posts to the floor, hidden among the seam sealer. Cutoff wheel those and unbolt and should be free. Might need a putty knife or something to cut the seam sealer too.

Edit: there might be one or two tack welds on the upright portion of the post, where the far arrow is covering,

Header panel is bolted in, needs at least one beside removed to install/remove, tailgate just lifts off (unless a 73-75, then unbolted).

@legopnuematic Thank you sir, exactly what I needed to know.

legopnuematic said:

If you look in my 79 thread (link in my signature), post #704 is when I took delivery of them in 2021.

I believe they are worth the asking price, fit is good and I believe they addressed some of the issues that the other old tooling repop bedsides have. @TotalyHucked likely can answer what the improvements and differences are.

Of course, it depends on what your goal is, say oe quality vs laser straight show truck on the body work required. I believe for oe+ quality, a good block sand, couple coats of hi build primer, blocked down will get them 90% of the way there.

I’m pleased with them.

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Good to know. OEM fit would be great. Have been there done that trying to install poor reproduction parts.

fast 99 said:

Good to know. OEM fit would be great. Have been there done that trying to install poor reproduction parts.

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Yeah and alot of the squarebody panels were junk for a long time, what we refer to as "crash parts". We reverse engineered off good original panels when we made ours, they're the same gauge thickness as OE and have all the same contours/cutouts/radii/etc. We put alot of time and effort into all the squarebody stuff, we bought like 18 trucks or cabs to help with development but I can confidently say we've got the best stuff on the market. I've put a few beds together now and everything works very well. I will tell you a little truck though, use a step bit to open up all the pass through holes, that gives you a little more wiggle room/adjustability. I fought to make the holes bigger in production but they wanted to match OE 100% so I couldn't argue

fast 99 said:

Let us know how the bed sides fit and quality. I will need both at a later date.

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I can vouch for the fit and quality. As good as OEM believe it or not. They've come a long way. On my bed, the only OEM parts are the wheel tubs and tailgate.

Bloodhound1981 said:

I can vouch for the fit and quality. As good as OEM believe it or not. They've come a long way. On my bed, the only OEM parts are the wheel tubs and tailgate.

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Beautiful truck and black shows everything. Already have an AMD floor. Bed sides have too many repairs [mud] to ever look good even in white. Might be next winters project.

Will add, you folks in the east have to deal with a lot of rust. It's really too bad shipping is so expensive. West coast doesn't have near the issue. Lots of donor vehicles laying around.