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Old Jun 26, 2009
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Fiberglass bedsides mounted (Pics)

I picked up some glassworks 4.5 bedsides with a gas pod for $200 that were mounted on a truck with a full bedcage (so they had mounting holes on the sides of them) and they were black and green. I used some bondo to fill the holes and i sanded them down and painted them white. Then me and Shaklakan spent almost 10 hours mounting them and the reason it took so long was because this was our 2nd time mounting them and we just wanted to make sure we were doing it right. The tailights dont fit exactly the way i want them to but theyll work for now. Enjoy.

Transporting them to Shaklakan's house
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Using air shears to cut the old bedskins off.
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No more bed skins!
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Set into place but not bolted down yet
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Fin.
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Old Jun 26, 2009
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Not bad man. You got more ***** than I do to do something like that
 
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Old Jun 26, 2009
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Question... if you painted the fenders white... why didn't you paint them tan to match the truck?
 
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Old Jun 26, 2009
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because the "light prarie tan metallic" color is almost $125 a quart, and i had to use 1 quart of primer, and 2 quarts of color just to get rid of all the green and black. And i just bought paint at my work for $20 a quart.
 
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Looks good, but if you can get white so cheap. Go ahead and paint the cab white?
 
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Old Jun 26, 2009
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Originally Posted by Sonic04Edge
Looks good, but if you can get white so cheap. Go ahead and paint the cab white?
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Old Jun 26, 2009
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lol
I guess he actually wanted to go for the white fenders look, haha.
 
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Old Jun 26, 2009
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white ftw!
 
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white ftw!
Book of The Piece, Chapter 3:

"If you have to paint your fiberglass, you didn't plan your truck very well. Buy a white truck and the fiberglass is already the right color."
 
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Old Jun 26, 2009
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^^^ haha. that glass looks good. if i ever lift my truck i want to get me some flares
 
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Old Jun 26, 2009
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Originally Posted by rngprerunner
Book of The Piece, Chapter 3:

"If you have to paint your fiberglass, you didn't plan your truck very well. Buy a white truck and the fiberglass is already the right color."
Lol piece. He told me something like that a while ago too.

And im not going for that "white fender look" but i dont have the money/time/skill to completely paint my truck white by myself. and white fenders looks better than the green and black color they were.
 
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