Will a Bumpside tailgate fit a slick??

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » April 17, 2008, 2:14 pm

So will it?
I need a tailgate for my slick and all I can find is bumpside ones.

TIA,

-Shiny

ICEMAN6166 · Post by **ICEMAN6166** » April 17, 2008, 2:28 pm

yes they fit but the lettering and something else?(CRS

) are different than the slick gate.

36truck · Post by **36truck** » April 17, 2008, 2:30 pm

Isn't the handle wrong also?

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » April 17, 2008, 2:32 pm

Living proof
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willy3486 · Post by **willy3486** » April 17, 2008, 2:40 pm

That truck looks great JC. I like all the wood on it don't you too JC?
Seriously I have made out with a tailgate made for about a 73 one time and it worked. I just didn't like it. But I found the 67 tailgate for 100 bucks and couldn't let it pass. It had been taken off the truck in 69,wrapped up in a blanket and stored in a barn loft until 2002 when I bought it. Its probably the most sound and perfect piece of sheetmetal on the truck. I actually like it better than the original due to the ring around the letters. BTW the taillights are out of a 67 also, thats for the backup lights.

Slick Fan · Post by **Slick Fan** » April 17, 2008, 3:07 pm

I see Bumpside tailgates on Slicks often. I've seen Dentside gates used a couple times...those look completely wrong.

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » April 17, 2008, 3:13 pm

Just to prove that Willy is my personal hero, here's a shot of mine, with '72 tallights and a '68 Ranger tailgate.
(Courtesty of slick member My65)
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I am not as good as he at woodwork tho.

36truck · Post by **36truck** » April 17, 2008, 3:17 pm

JC that tailgate saying MERCURY is cool.

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » April 17, 2008, 4:24 pm

Thanx guys!
Glad it won't be politically incorrect to run one

Reason I asked is I'm in need of a mercury gate for my crew cab, it came with the earlier box and that even didn't have a gate on it.
JC, that merc gate is mint! Although I woulda painted it another color

So does anyone know of a slick merc gate for sale or trade?

-Shiny

Alan Mclennan · Post by **Alan Mclennan** » April 17, 2008, 5:11 pm

Hey Johnno!, was the PO of your truck a newspaper or a thermometer company?

Alan,

blackagatha · Post by **blackagatha** » April 17, 2008, 5:24 pm

Alan Mclennan wrote:Hey Johnno!, was the PO of your truck a newspaper or a thermometer company?

Alan,

EH??? hahah you dont make sense dude! do you?

Those tailgates flow beautifully! wow. I just wish I could find a nice gate for mine for cheap... I'll probably just end up patching its rust holes and beating it flat when I get aaround to it someday....

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » April 17, 2008, 6:52 pm

People in Portland, Pottstown,San Jose, Guelph, Tasmania, and Manhattan get the joke.
and me too

blackagatha · Post by **blackagatha** » April 17, 2008, 7:50 pm

can you fill the rest of us uncool kids in on the joke or is it best left unsaid??? hahaha

fordman125 · Post by **fordman125** » April 17, 2008, 8:25 pm

WOW i that is a good look for a slick that also makes me think about a article i seen at the forifacation web site were they took and cut the bed rail off a bump side and made a role pan out of it that makes me think that we could do the same type of trick to out slicks?

o ya i also would like to know what the inner fenders in the merc came out of im trying to find a cost effectiv way to make mine better they are perty rusted.

GLindley · Post by **GLindley** » April 17, 2008, 8:33 pm

fordman125 wrote:...makes me think about a article i seen at the forifacation web site were they took and cut the bed rail off a bump side and made a role pan out of it that makes me think that we could do the same type of trick to out slicks?

Yeah, Uncle Skip is at least one who has done this...

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flareside64 · Post by **flareside64** » April 17, 2008, 8:47 pm

Yep. bumpside gates will work. Dentsides I think will work but look wrong. However I have seen a bumpside gate on a dentside truck and that looked good... I think the stock dentside gates look ugly and they are only acceptable on a dent.

willy3486 · Post by **willy3486** » April 17, 2008, 8:56 pm

fordman125 wrote:WOW i that is a good look for a slick that also makes me think about a article i seen at the forifacation web site were they took and cut the bed rail off a bump side and made a role pan out of it that makes me think that we could do the same type of trick to out slicks?

o ya i also would like to know what the inner fenders in the merc came out of im trying to find a cost effectiv way to make mine better they are perty rusted.

Someone correct me if I am wrong but didn't someone here at this site come up with using a bed rail to do that? I was thinking years ago before my was even half finished reading about someone here who started it. Seems like it may have been one of the PA guys. It was at the msn or maybe the yahoo site. Boy I feel old remembering stuff here years ago.

blackagatha · Post by **blackagatha** » April 17, 2008, 9:04 pm

willy-

uncle skip... maybe others.

that sure is slick... I had no idea that was a bedside in a previous life

66fordtrucknut · Post by **66fordtrucknut** » April 17, 2008, 9:07 pm

Yep, that would be Chuck AKA Wyatt of York PA. It wasn't all that long ago that there was a thread about it.
Charlie

Garbz · Post by **Garbz** » April 17, 2008, 9:41 pm

And the one on Canucks Merc......Via Special slick stock delivery....

Garbz