How-To Making A Pickup Bed

A home-built short version of an authentic styled bed. Part 1

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Right from the start of this re-creation project I have had in mind to keep many of the elements of my original Model A bucket that I finished in 1969, but not to make it an exact copy – more of a tribute car. The original bucket body was made up from the cowl and doors of a roadster, plus the centre door pillars and rear doors of a Model A tourer. All these pieces were welded together, making entry and egress from the vehicle via the jump-over-the-top method – okay when you are only 19 years of age, not so easy now that I am a little older!

To form the back of the original bucket body I made an angle cut across the lower rear corner of the tourer rear doors where there is the original scallop to fit around the rear fender. Then I just joined the rear edge of the rear doors with a square tube framework and filled the area in with sheet metal, giving the body its unique shape.