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One more step forward!

Two weeks later and my body is recovering from lifting and moving the chassis from under the car body. During the lift process, I found lots of rust in the rockers and sills to finally realize why the doors weren't closing properly. For an instant during the lift I had really nicely latching doors, so there is hope. I searched everywhere for specific anchor bolt locations. The four on each side were easy to locate. There was mention of an odd one penetrating the spare tire well. In addition there are two at the rear of the trunk going into the rear frame rail, then two at the radiator support. Some of mine were hidden by rust and had no ressemlance to hex head bolts. Surprisingly, most of my bolts came out easily which made it a success. Only one bolt head to chop off. I drug out a body dolly I have used multiple times and will now refit it to work on the Plymouth body.

OK I spent a few minutes and fixed the problem .... this time I test fit it Time to quit playing around, my new spray gun is suppose to be delivered today and Thursday-Friday look warm enough to paint @Tony_Urwin Here is a template from the factory passenger side, not the one I made. Here is a photo of the front panel I still need to add rubber pads under the bed to raise it up and then bolt the bed down 😕 will center the zirk.

Good question. What would be the best way to find out? I do have this beast that I've been wanting to play with...

My original bed wood is long gone in the fire pit, but I can tell you the countersink was factory and not a repeated tightening of a bolt. Wood in my bed was not by any means all rotten, was actually in decent enough shape, just not resto quality. From a factory setting, the rabbits and a counter sink are not that big of a process to do and litterally the right thing to do for someone that woudl be shoveling. I'd say countersunk factory.

Washer on top the wood makes me think of scraping snow off a sidewalk or driveway and coming up against a raised edge. I realize that bed will never see a scoop shovel and you may not be able to relate to scraping snow off a driveway but I think it looks more utilitarian with the washers recessed. JMO. You could eliminate those washers and bolt the cross members using the only the bottom holes and short bolts. The bed is still bolted to the cross members on the outside by the side angles.

Sorry I spent a lot of time out at sea. I read every book on the ship that wasn't a tech manual and started reading the dictionary.

Dodge had quite the sales department ..... they advertised they doubled the payload with their new bed .... was simply the same size as Ford and chebby and a normal size. The low side was very useful for some delivery drivers in the city .... They could just reach over the side to get the delivery and not have to crawl in and out of the bed to get them. While my truck is a 1949 .... it identifies as a 1950. The serial number on the A pillar ends with a X. This means it was built at the end of the 1949 year, and used as a display model to show off the features of the new 1950 models. So I have the low side bed, shifter was moved to the column and E-brake under the dash for more leg room .... mine is not correct either to have a low side on a 49, but it is technically and factory correct .... not rare or valuable ... just different. Seems I made a noobie boo boo The shape is wrong for the shackle .... I used the right side for a pattern to make the left side ... I did not compensate for the angle. The panel is resting on the shackle and pushing the panel out at a angle .... I have a opportunity for improvement situation here. I'm going to spend 30 minute on it tomorrow and see if I can cut out some of the tubing and reshape the hole. Splice in new tubing .... or just start over and make a new piece. Just metal and not a big deal either way. Tomorrow when I remove it I will make a pattern of the pieces and @Tony_Urwin will need to remember left and right when making them.

Word of the day is "ameliorate". I looked it up. Learn something new everyday. LOL

18 Gauge?

We did the first hopefully of many Christmas light parades this year with the 1952 B3GA First gear low speed on the rear end and I just idled the whole way with my foot off the gas! It's like it's made for a parade. Fun was had by all. This weekend it's a Christmas caroling hayride.