"A" pick-up bed on Deuce Rails: How'd you fill the gap?

Because Deuce frame rails aren't flat, there's a visual gap between the bottom of the bed rails on a Model A pick-up bed and the top of the Deuce frame rail, just behind the cab. How'd you fill it? I've seen panels added, sometimes with a rolled edge, sometimes with louvres (like the 'Shine pick-up). Let's see some ideas... extra points for something I can fab at home

 

Yeah, well........I was goin to fill it with some louvered aluminum sheet stock but never got around to it...

 

I thought you were supposed to contour the bottom of the bed to fit the frame contour?

Otherwise the bed would be too high as compared to the cab, won't it?

See page 93 of Hop Up issue #3, "Hop Up How To" By Mike Bishop. There is a good looking 29 RPU on 32 rails.

Neal

 

Hey Neal -- I like the bed sitting up high. Look at the Larry Shinoda pick-up in the Bishop-Tardel book. It's on an A chassis, but the bed looks raised higher than stock -- and it gives the whole car a flatter, smoother look. Imagine a line from the grille shell, back over the hood top, across the cowl, door tops, and the top of the bed. I like the idea of flattening that line out by raising the bed. But that gives me that hole between the bed and fame to fill. I'll check out that Hop Up tonite....

 

howzabout some BONDO??? i got a putty knife around here somewhere,i'll be right over...

 

Don't forget your chicken wire yorg. A gap that big would probably need 2 layers.

 

I don't have a scanner but my friend Frank Macfadden has a 29 rpu on a 32 chassis and he mounted the bed on the kick up of the frame rails and made a small filler panel to fill in the area between the frame and the bed.It looks cool and he did it at home. Look at Rocky's pic and you can see where the panel would go.

 

That's what I'm talking about -- mounting the bed on the kick-up, then filling that area like on Rocky's with some kind of panel. There's a lip on the bottom of the bed rails (that covered the original A chassis) that I could attach the panels to, but I was just lookin' for some inspiration.

 

that's what me and my buddy who now owns the rocky 33 did....a filler panel between the box and frame. i did have pictures,but lost them when my computer crashed, maybe i'll take some more and post them