early stepside bed

[dreamer2]

has anyone seen a KC step bed truck? I have only seen standard cabs and very few, I no it was a kit just never seen a KC. would it be worth doing or not?

[izzo]

Do what you want man, its your truck. It'd be the first one I've seen if you do it.

[Farmer]

There's one in the 620 gallery.

 

[1lo620]

Here is a shot of a xcab with a step side..

 

 

 

[JoeCool]

That truck with the flames looks good!

[dreamer2]

That KC is sick has me thinking now! What to do what to do? :devil: say the DEVIL made me do it. :w00t:

[pharouh]

Around 1977 or 78,Car Craft magazine gave away a new King cab they had fixed up. It had a stepside bed,custom paint,nice wheels,and they took the old bed and made a matching trailer.

I wanted it soooo bad. I was there at the Street Machine Nats in Indy when they gave it away.

 

I know you don't see that many King Cabs with the beds,but they were out there.

[Farmer]

Heres the one I was thinking of

 

[Steroid]

Farmer,

 

That is a shot I scanned out of one of My Japanese Cal Magazines. That is a California Stepsides bed. See the chromed steps? The Chevy Luvs were sold with stepside beds that had the steps molded into the fenders made by a different company.

 

 

 

Lastly here is a view of the Budd Anderson conversions on a kingcab. Anderson's fenders looked like old Dodge fenders where the CSS and Chevy Luvs looked like Chevrolet fenders.

 

 

 

[pharouh]

mine is similar to the last picture (the CSS ad) with the flared fenders.

I still need to know how the steps mount. It looks like they just bolt to the fenders and slide between the bed and the mounting bracket. If that's the case,there's no way you could step on them.

[Steroid]

Pharouh,

 

I have a set of steps seperate from the bed. I can photograph them if You like and show You how there were mounted. If I remember right the very tops were bolted to the lower front of the bed. On My truck the previous owner welded a tube with a flat plate onto the frame that sat just below (under) the steps so that a person's weight would not collapse them. Mike

[pharouh]

Pharouh,

 

I have a set of steps seperate from the bed. I can photograph them if You like and show You how there were mounted. If I remember right the very tops were bolted to the lower front of the bed. On My truck the previous owner welded a tube with a flat plate onto the frame that sat just below (under) the steps so that a person's weight would not collapse them. Mike

 

Thanks Mike, I'd love to see some pics. Anything would help.