Greetings to all! A special “Thank you” to all that weighed in on what I should do to my truck bed. The bed of my ’84 F150 was in pretty rough shape. I was conflicted on a type bed liner as I am committed as much as possible to keeping this original and spraying one in seemed invasive. Thanks to the group I finally got my brain wrapped around spraying in a color matched Raptor liner and I cannot even begin to say how happy I am with it. I have enclosed some pictures of how it turned out. (if they are still sideways I apologize.)
A little background on the truck…I have had it for about two months. It has 53,000 miles on it and spent a decade or two in a garage. I am blessed to have found one so original. It still wears a shiny coat of factory Copper Glow paint! But, with that originality came some fun. First up; when I started driving it every fluid in it started spilling out from dry cork gaskets circa 1984. Since then I have gone from one end to the other mechanically, which included brakes, balancing a drive shaft, converting the A/C over, and a tune up that included replacing the original spark plugs along with wires, etc. Of course, then it starts bouncing as I drive it, so off I go for shocks. During the shock replacement I find a dry rotted original spare so that had to go. Perhaps best of all however in this early journey was getting the dash lights up and running. What a wonderful soft glow!
At any rate, I’m going to keep marching through this old truck piece by piece and despite all the locals telling me I’m nuts for driving it, I figure that is what it was built for and its fun to drive. I’m threatening a road trip to Montana (2,180 miles away) this summer, I’ll let everyone know how that goes.
Again, thanks for the bed liner help.
Custer
North Carolina
Paul.mypc@yahoo.com