[Cayoterun]

As I've driven this pickup about 400mi. locally, the bed somehow didn't look right. Then I remembered as a kid, they generally had grain side boards on them during wheat and maize harvest. Probably only old geezers will remember them looking like this during the 40s and 50s. They would haul 60-70 bushels. 65 bushels @ 60# per bushel meant they would pile around 2 tons on them. Off the wife and kids would go for the grain elevator, while Dad harvested another combine bin of grain, back in the good ol' days.

The old 6-cylinder engines would chug right along about 25-30mph with that big of a load. No ps, pb, ac, or auto tranny.