Bedroom Set out of 1956 Ford Truck Bed

Happy Fathers Day. I get to work on the bed for a bit today before the big Fathers Day dinner. Sandblasted and painted the wheel, scrubbed the tire and white wall, sandblasted and painted the chain for the tailgate, and did some more sanding on the bed side.

 

Had to put the one bed side on the house so it would not get rained on. Econoline has the garage full. Added some license plated to the siding to give it some color, and got some more painted. Getting closer.

 

My Econoline Build...otherwise bed would be done...

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=749847

 

Sweet Econoline...subscribed to that one.

I'm diggin how the bed set is looking. Keep the pics coming....

 

sub'd for this. awesome idea!
if i had that when i was a kid, i would never leave my room lol

 

That's a good point. How are you going to ground them? They're going to want to stay in their rooms...

 

Dont worry, they know when they are in trouble...

Got his old bed out, and got the new bed in. Still have some painting and trim to do, but he spent his first night in it last night, and it was a hit.

 

Cool room nice work.

 

now if you could get the back foot or so of a cab for a head board.... haha

 

I am looking. Would make it sweet. Could take a pretty rusted up one...I could have bought him a pretty fancy bedroom set for the money I have in this one now...I guess I am teaching him the first lesson about Hot Rodding, everthing you do cost twice what you think...

 

Dude.. that's pretty damned creative.. Kid better not grow out of it or you'll need to build one out of a long bed!!!

 

Great Job! Looks awesome!

 

Damn, photos are gone. Did we kill your bandwidth? Reach your max for the month?

 

Sorry about that, screwed that up. They are all back. Here is the latest. You now how the end of the project goes soooo slow....did a little more painting today.

 

that's awesome!!!

 

Way cool! What a great idea.

 

Got the rest of the painting done, and hung some signs. I did find a cab from a 56 Ford F100 that is in pretty rough shape. Im gonna cut the back off, and narrow it 12 inches and bolt it to the wall.

 

This looks great! I love how it turned out!!

 

That is awesome. I'm sure you've inspired a lot of dads into dragging rust metal in the house. Thanks!

 

Yep I'm stealing the heck outta this idea when my little girl gets a bit older. Is it just a fullsize box springs and mattress?

 

Good Morning, thanks for the compliments. I had to narrow the box of the bed by 12 inches to get that mattress to fit in, I only used a twin. I did not really measure to see what I would have to do to put a full size in, his room was better off with a twin, especially with the fenders sticking out so far past the mattress...Good luck and if I can be of any help, please let me know.

 

Found the cab today, gonna cut the back 6 inches off of it for the headboard to the bed. Will have to narrow it about 5 inches also to match the bed.

 

Im gonna use the dash out of it for the Econoline that I have been building...check it out here.

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Cool bed.. nice idea! LOVE LOVE LOVE that Black on black Impala 'vert!

 

Got the back cut off. Now cutting out the dash for the other project....Econoline.

 

Had to take 5 inches out of her so she would line up with the garage and the bed.

 

Got the cab (headboard) in place for Maxs bed. Fits nice, now I will take it back out, paint it to match the bed, and get a window in it.

 

Looks great! You could mirror the glass and put a LED TV behind it and no one would know it is there unless it is on...

Steve

 

That was an idea my wife had also...I love it...but we dont let our kids watch too much TV, (trying to encourage some hot rodders) so Im trying to talk my wife into one for our room....not looking good.

 

sliding glass window, so he has a "cubby" hole....