Thanks, I had been wanting to do a flatbed for some time, just hadn't had the opportunity, until I came across the '91. It was a farm truck and the bed was dented pretty bad. I had originally planned on fixing it and selling it, but then I decided to build me another trail truck.

Not too much swearing was done until I got beyond the weight I could lift off by myself, not having a hoist made it interesting. I did spend a lot of time planning out the pieces for the base, so basically after cutting it all out, it assembled as a kit. Also moving from oneside to the other while welding kept warpage to a minimum.

The law here require the lights to only be visable from behind, most use round trailer lights screwed to the back. I wanted to do something different, so I used the dead space from the dovetail for the lights. I had to cut the rear lights down to fit the height of the rails down so I couldn't use the factory lights and retain the turn signal. I used Mazda lights, they use the same type of harness, I just had to move some of the pins around to get them to work with the Toyota harness. The mesh screen I used is open enough to allow the lights to be visable from the side.