Anybody with a stakebed slick?

Gittinwidit · Post by **Gittinwidit** » August 19, 2011, 2:42 pm

I picked up a '62 F250 stake bed truck and found out that the wheelbase is between a long and short bed. Didn't have the original bed on it though and I gave it to the owner in exchange for $200 off the price. It was obvious it wasn't original. I planned on reproducing another stakebed for it. But after searching my hearts content (here and google), I haven't got even a single picture to look at? Was stakebeds a rarity? The rear suspension is very neat. It's entirely greasable and in excellent shape as long as I can get another bed over it... Was that a stakebed thing?
Any help on stat's, history or pics would be greatly appreciated.

Gittinwidit · Post by **Gittinwidit** » August 19, 2011, 2:49 pm

Found this guy on FTE but it's originally a long bed... The rear wheels are closer to the cab on mine. Kinda looks odd is why I was inquiring an original pic? An original ad would probably be most helpful.

http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/membe ... tt%29.html

Thanks again.

Gritsngumbo · Post by **Gritsngumbo** » August 19, 2011, 3:44 pm

I know a few members have flatbeds but don't remember any stakes, but that doesn't mean there are none out there.
I may be wrong, but I think you will find that the stakes, flatbeds etc. were "dealer installed" rather than "factory installed". You ordered a cab and chassis and had the bed (build by third-parties) installed by the dealer. I would suspect that the beds would differ from one geographic location to another, just like the "dealer id" bumpers.
I have a 66 Ranger Long Bed that was ordered as a cab/chassis and the PO had a 10' flatbed made to fit what he intended to haul on it.

ezernut9mm · Post by **ezernut9mm** » August 19, 2011, 8:21 pm

i wouldn't think there were 250 stake beds. all i have seen were 350s. what is the wheel base?

bluebolt · Post by **bluebolt** » August 20, 2011, 12:58 am

Gittinwidit wrote:I picked up a '62 F250 stake bed truck and found out that the wheelbase is between a long and short bed. Didn't have the original bed on it though and I gave it to the owner in exchange for $200 off the price. It was obvious it wasn't original. I planned on reproducing another stakebed for it. But after searching my hearts content (here and google), I haven't got even a single picture to look at? Was stakebeds a rarity? The rear suspension is very neat. It's entirely greasable and in excellent shape as long as I can get another bed over it... Was that a stakebed thing?
Any help on stat's, history or pics would be greatly appreciated.

61-63 f100 and f250 longbeds were shorter wheelbase (122" for 2wd I believe) than 1964 (128" for 2wd) and the new twin I beam 1965 1966 longbeds (129")

bluebolt · Post by **bluebolt** » August 20, 2011, 1:54 am

Grits if the dog had not chewed up your Ford truck parts CD you could probably look up the factory stakebed info. They are I believe the "platform and rack" trucks. It's kinda hard to understand and no pictures I could find but they list factory stakebed parts for f100, f250, f350 and f500 trucks in the 1961 Ford parts book.

Here's some trucks with stake beds. Can't say if they are factory stakebeds or not.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/autohistorian/4110650115/

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~bob/vehicles/cars.html

http://www.goheartland.com/VintageVehic ... dF350.html

http://forum.love-fords.org/showthread. ... os-Gallery

http://www.classictruckcentral.com/trucks/1247

Gritsngumbo · Post by **Gritsngumbo** » August 20, 2011, 10:46 am

Brien: Quite frankly it wouldn't have crossed my mind to look there (even if the dog hadn't chewed up)

. Good research on your part though.
After posting the above, I did remember that I had seen F350's and larger stake beds on some of the Ford brochures, and (although Ford marketing materials didn't always reflect reality) could lead someone to surmise that they did offer them (at least for the larger trucks) from the factory?
BTW: That a pretty nice looking 62 F350 on the classictruckcentral.com website: http://www.classictruckcentral.com/trucks/1247
Shouldn't have looked further on that site, some pretty interesting trucks, including a couple of "N's"(thankfully they are too far away

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36truck · Post by **36truck** » August 20, 2011, 2:38 pm

Ford made flat beds for years. I had one on a 36 Ton & half. I know they made them till 1979 on F350's. I don't believe they made any on F250's.

Rusty 63 · Post by **Rusty 63** » August 20, 2011, 2:52 pm

bluebolt wrote:
Gittinwidit wrote:I picked up a '62 F250 stake bed truck and found out that the wheelbase is between a long and short bed. Didn't have the original bed on it though and I gave it to the owner in exchange for $200 off the price. It was obvious it wasn't original. I planned on reproducing another stakebed for it. But after searching my hearts content (here and google), I haven't got even a single picture to look at? Was stakebeds a rarity? The rear suspension is very neat. It's entirely greasable and in excellent shape as long as I can get another bed over it... Was that a stakebed thing?
Any help on stat's, history or pics would be greatly appreciated.
61-63 f100 and f250 longbeds were shorter wheelbase (122" for 2wd I believe) than 1964 (128" for 2wd) and the new twin I beam 1965 1966 longbeds (129")

That's why the long wrong beds can't be easily "fixed" by putting on the 64-66 styleside bed. They're more of a mid wheel base. If you find Shiny's crewcab build, you'll see he moved the rear axle forward to fit a short styleside...

Alan Mclennan · Post by **Alan Mclennan** » August 20, 2011, 5:57 pm

here`s a couple more pic`s

ezernut9mm · Post by **ezernut9mm** » August 20, 2011, 11:48 pm

alan, none of that counts as those are bloody wrong sided drivers.

Alan Mclennan · Post by **Alan Mclennan** » August 20, 2011, 11:59 pm

What`s your point?

65TremecGT · Post by **65TremecGT** » August 21, 2011, 11:42 am

We have a 66 F-250 ex military flatbed parts truck (that had the 19.5 inch wheels and large opening front fenders), the rear of that flatbed is stamped FORD. Would be pretty cool to put together a nice flatbed, takes a good 1/3 off the body work!

bluebolt · Post by **bluebolt** » August 21, 2011, 5:41 pm

ezernut9mm wrote:i wouldn't think there were 250 stake beds. all i have seen were 350s. what is the wheel base?

According to the 1961 parts book they had stakebeds for 114" wheelbase (F100), 122" (F250), 132" (F350) and 156" (F500)

Defintely uncommon to find a factory F100 stakebed.

F7BIGJOB · Post by **F7BIGJOB** » August 21, 2011, 6:31 pm

Years ago my friends father had several F 100's all factory stakebodies.
I've been looking all weekend for my 65-66 fact book, that has specs for stake and f/bed bodies for F 100- F 350.
I really did see it 'cause I wondered what the diff. was between the two , other than one didn't have the stake sides?

Gritsngumbo · Post by **Gritsngumbo** » August 21, 2011, 11:35 pm

65TremecGT wrote:We have a 66 F-250 ex military flatbed parts truck (that had the 19.5 inch wheels and large opening front fenders), the rear of that flatbed is stamped FORD. Would be pretty cool to put together a nice flatbed, takes a good 1/3 off the body work!

Do you by any chance have a picture you can post? Would like to see it. Sounds pretty cool.

65TremecGT · Post by **65TremecGT** » August 22, 2011, 11:28 am

I dont think so, we took the truck apart but saved the bed, its in a old box truck safe and sound. It looked factory, at least a FORD part you might be able to purchase from the dealer. I think there was a similar thread a long time ago that had a pic, cant seem to find it now though.

66fordtrucknut · Post by **66fordtrucknut** » August 22, 2011, 9:39 pm

I don't think this counts but I'm putting a 65' cab on my 78' 350 dually frame with a 12' dump bed. It was a stake bed turned into a dump. 78' cab is toast and have a perfectly good 65' cab. Doesn't seem like a big deal to do it.
Charlie

Gittinwidit · Post by **Gittinwidit** » August 23, 2011, 6:37 am

Excellent help! My '62 F250 is 122" as mentioned and has the open fenders. And I had compared with a '66 shortbed and '66 longbed to determine mine was in between. I wasn't aware of so many differences in the slicks?

azjake · Post by **azjake** » August 23, 2011, 12:47 pm

I just bought this yesterday. It is a 1961 F350 with a freshly overhauled 2bbl V-8 (332?), 4 speed tranny and it's original Ford dump bed that works! Someone down the line installed a radiator from a Toyota. That HAS to go!!!

Included were wood sides that drop into the bed pockets, so does it qualify as a stake bed???

It does have some rust issues, but for what I got it for, I can live with it. Also, the 390 air filter is not original! But, I guess you-all knew that!

Jake

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