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04-08-2014 #1
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post you bed covers
If you would post pictures of custom made bed covers. I'm wanting to build one for my lightning out of sheet metal and a aluminum frame. I wanted to see if anyothers have been done and how they turned out.
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04-08-2014 #2
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The guys at west bend dyno built this one. Carbon fiber panels in a custom aluminum frame.
Those boys are incredible!
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That's awesome. I bought my truck with a fiberglass flush mount bed cover but it was so frigging heavy I took it off. For now it's also used as a truck some times and I'm hauling stuff in the bed.
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Anyone have experience building bedcovers with an aluminum composite material such as this?
Looking for ideas how to do a flush mount with a weatherstripped edge, holes for roll cage rear bars to enter the bedcover, and hinge it for access.
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Wish i did. Heck, come to the optima street car challenge at road america and talk to them in person. Haha
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Talk to Alex (871BOLT) on the NLOC lightning forum. He has and is presently building a custom cover for another lightning owner. http://www.nloc.net/vbforum/bala/
Originally Posted by 69lsxamx
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LOL.... Now that's one heck of a bed cover. Originally Posted by Damn True
George Dias
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2003 Z06 Corvette
2015 Truckin Throwdown Champion http://www.trucktrend.com/events/tru...by-ebc-brakes/
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Our bed cover
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Built mine from .063 aluminum.While it has a 59 chevy fin style to it, It serves the hidden task of larger dry, locked, & hidden carrying capacity. Weighs a little over 80 lbs in it's blown up size, which is far less than a flush Gaylords cover.Besides, didn't really want any part of my truck to be GAY.
These are both outdated pics of the vehicle , but the best bedcover pics I had.
My first flush bedcover had a thin aluminum angle edge, aircraft style wood framing with a slight top arch, & a 3/32" fiberglass skin. Cover weighed less than 50 lbs by itself.
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