1981 F100 resto-mod [not my cup of tea, but very nice craftsmanship!]

[1986F150Six]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1981-Ford-F-100-very-custom/183413090501?hash=item2ab445a8c5:g:u~UAAOSwHWJbjHZd&vxp=mtr

[Gary Lewis]

Glad he's selling it - he needs to go back to the dark side.  IT ISN"T A STEP SIDE!

[Ford F834]

Not my cup of tea either, but I have come across the build thread for this truck in my searches for black out trim. That is the one part of it that I do like, but the rest not so much. I’m guessing he may find it hard to sell.

[Gary Lewis]

The more customization the fewer people will like it.  And that one is seriously customized, so the interested audience will be quite small.

[Rembrant]

Gary Lewis wrote

Glad he's selling it - he needs to go back to the dark side.  IT ISN"T A STEP SIDE!

Haha...Gary, I think I'd have to argue this point, at least a little bit;).

I'd say that the truck, at least the "style" of the truck is that it IS a "Step Side", but it is not a "Stepside".

I'd never heard of these trucks being called Flaresides until I joined FTE and your forum, and even today, all these years later, it seems the vast majority of folks still call them Step Side trucks. I know that Stepside is a GM term, but still...it seems to have become the defacto standard term to describe these trucks.

After all, regardless of the brand, they all do have a step on the side.

PS: I only just recently came across the Dodge term by accident while looking at other stuff, and it looks like they called them "Utililine" beds.

[Gary Lewis]

It bugs me when people use the wrong terminology.  Not that I'm perfect.  In fact, I'm far from it.  But I like to learn and when I read that Ford's pickups with a step on the side are called Flaresides then I add that to my vocabulary and try to adjust my speach/typing.

Reminds me of the discussion most of us probably had with our mother.  She said "If everyone else jumped off a cliff would you?"  Obviously not.  So, just because other people are sloppy and call a Ford by a Chevy name doesn't mean that I should.

I'll be quiet and not say anything more.  (But, I'll be thinking it!  )

[Rembrant]

Gary Lewis wrote

Reminds me of the discussion most of us probably had with our mother.  She said "If everyone else jumped off a cliff would you?"  Obviously not.  So, just because other people are sloppy and call a Ford by a Chevy name doesn't mean that I should.

Well, in the defense of the people that DO call them Step Sides, I wouldn't necessarily call it sloppy, I'd just say they are like I always was, and simply did not know the correct manufacturer's term. In my case, I was only calling them what the general population was because I didn't know any better. Now that I know that they're actually called a "Flareside", I do my best to go by the correct term, at least when I'm among the purists...lol.

When people talk to me about my truck, I'd say 1 in 5 call it a Flareside, and that's usually because they're Ford guys that have had some exposure to these trucks in the past. A general "car guy", that isn't specifically a Ford guy will almost always call them a Step Side.

Even the aftermarket magazines all call the model a Stepside...lol. (LMC, NPD, etc). I have a Mar-K catalog here, and they sometimes mention the term Flareside but will put in brackets next to it (Flareside same thing as Stepside)...lol.

I guess my point is, a lot of people are wrong, but at the same time it's hard to blame them;).

There, I'll leave you alone now...lol.

[Gary Lewis]

OK, I guess that makes me a purist.  

(But I'm well aware of that.  I seriously dislike being wrong, so go out of my way to pick up on the correct way of saying things, the right use of words, the correct spelling, etc.  I think it stems from a fear of being "different", and somehow that makes me different.  )

[reamer]

The vendors will use stepside because of ignorance, and if not ignorant,  it's a great "tag word" for searches