Re: GMC Factory Option Bed Rails
Hey Rolland, Thanks. Do you remember the Polar Bear Ice Cream Parlor. It was on the main drag in Albany. Stopped in there as a kid a lot, going to Marianna, Florida. Albany is a neat old town, and it is my pick as the hottest place other than Macon I have ever been. How did they take it without fans and AC? And I too have uncles named Jefferson, Robert E. and John Bell Gordon, Heck my dawgs name is Jeb, and the cats named Jackson. On the subject of the rails, I have only seen them in the 1963 Chevy Accessories Catalog. But I do not have enough catalogs to know for sure if 1963 was the first, or only time rails were an option. I know the 1959 El Camino had similar rails. But the bullet ends look much sharper than the ones seen on the blue Chevy truck pictures I added. The stancheons look very much the same. The 1963 Macon Phone Book has a picture of my truck. It shows a set of bed rails. If I know Mr. Grover, he went and got them as soon as they came out. I want to add a set to help my Long Wheel Base look a little taller, and not so long. There is PerryCraft now that makes a bullet end stainless set up, but the stancheons are way to short. They are two screw type, and not strong at all. The Chevy stancheons had three screws for triangulated strength, and were much taller. I think about 4 inches tall. Those are the style stancheons I need. The pipes will be the easy part. If anyone has a line on the taller, old style shancheons, please let me know. Thanks, Greg Mead
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