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[rwh63]

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[fourspeedwagon]

Somebody can, I'm sure, give a better year/ID to it but I'll say it is 1955 or newer. Kinda rusty and slightly beat, I'd say it'd bring 200 or less. Good luck with it.

[rwh63]

Thx. Wondering if it was built as a trailer (factory) or someone attached a truck bed to a frame.

[lv2tri2]

Middle 50s Chevy could be 3/4 ton. May be setting on what is left of the original frame. Some value, not much. I think the 200 figure is probably close, but I wouldn't be interested, too much rust.

[rwh63]

So, Chevy never made a trailer like this, it is a "conversion" of sorts?

[OrrieG]

Made from the back half of a 55-59 Chevy step side. Sheet metal might have value if not to rusty or beat up, but all the parts are reproduced.

[fourspeedwagon]

Originally Posted by rwh63

So, Chevy never made a trailer like this, it is a "conversion" of sorts?

Correct- A Super common way for old trucks to live on. The frame is torched off under the cab and the tungue fabricated. The rest is the old bed, axle/wheels and even the lights could be reused. Then the engine and cab would be crushed for scrap..
Never seen or heard of a factory version of this.

[dubds10]

Not factory & based on how rusty and beat it is maybe $50-100 max. Good useable ones are out there for $200-400 often.

[rwh63]

Thx, I did get a $100 offer from a craigslist reply, and I sent pics to my local junkyard.

Basically, I want it off the property, and if I can make a little money that would be good.

[fourspeedwagon]

Yep. $200 would be the sun is shining/birds chirping price. But, it'd be the asking price I'd put on it if I were selling. And then I'd be happy with the hunert bucks and get it gone.

[ptc]

The Chevy / GMC stepside bed sides of the short and long beds are very interchangeable thru the years. The bed you have there in this pic appears to be a '54-'59 vintage stepside bed and it is a long bed which you can tell by the length of the steps.

The bed side panels are the same from '54-'87 believe it or not with some minor changes. In '54 the top rails started being flat instead of slanted and thats the major difference from the early year beds, besides the shape of the fenders. The bolt patterns for the fenders and the fenders themselves began changing again after '59.

Theres a great write up about the beds on the Mark-K site.

http://www.mar-k.com/bed_side_interchange_gm.aspx

[rwh63]

may have someone checking it out tomorrow. thanks for all the quick replies!

[Highsider]

Tell u s how it goes.

[DPowers]

Tailgate would make some nice garage art

[rwh63]

i think my price just went up!

[mr48chev]

The 8 lug wheels and hubs for a floating axle say that it was built out of the back end of a 3/4 ton that might have been anywhere between a second series 55 and mid 60's.

If the prospective buyer doesn't take it I'd see if I could get the tires to take air and clean it out so it presents a little better. It's actually probably worth more as a dump runner trailer than as parts from what I see but you might find the guy who has been hunting for a pair of fenders he can salvage that will jump on it. I'm with the others in that the actual value right now is between 100 and 200 $$ and what ever you get is all found money.

I've built probably a dozen similar trailers out of the beds and rear halves of the frames of trucks I have scrapped out in the past 35 years and never seemed to get a lot out of them but they are usually as rough as that one and someone buys them to use to haul junk to the dump. I've even got one built out of the back of a 70 C-10 that I rolled in 1989 out in the yard now that is more of a storage shed with wheels than a trailer.

[rwh63]

guy is interested. did point out the 8 lug pattern, as pointed out above. he had brought some lights etc in case it could be taken, but said he would see if he had a set of replacement wheels so it could be rolled. thanks so far for the feedback.

[rwh63]

that buyer declined, but got another bite.

[OrrieG]

Around here, any rolling steel trailer like that is worth min. $200

[58CameoAZ]

Around my neck of the Woods, that trailer would be worth MAX $200.

Just Saying!