Light duty crew cab trucks with 8' beds

"Nibby" (nibby68) 01/10/2020 at 09:30 • Filed to: None

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Ford F150

Whipped up some of these for light duty full size trucks. None of them can be had with a crew cab + 8 foot bed configuration. Some are available with the 6'4" option, but most crew cab light duty trucks come with the 5'5" bed. Presumably, these don’t actually exist cause they would probably eat into heavy duty truck sales (and might be due to engineering or weight limits? not sure about that).

These were all made by screenshotting each truck’s online configurator and then attaching the 8' bed variants onto the crew cab ones. The Ram 1500 doesn’t offer an 8' bed so I just lined it up with a Ram 2500's bed by extending the 6'4" crew cab bed.

Ram 1500

Chevrolet Silverado

GMC Sierra

Toyota Tundra

Nissan Titan

LONG LIVE PHOTOSHOP

E90M3 > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 09:34

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I drove an F250 with a crew cab and an 8 foot bed when I was at SLB, small it was not. I don’t know why you’d want to put an 8 foot bed on some of the light duty trucks, they get to be too long. Then again, this is probably why it’s not an option. 

jimz > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 09:37

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I think it’s more the take rate would be so low as to be not worth bothering. Anyone who would actually want/need a crew cab long bed would probably prefer an F-250 anyway even with the higher price.

edit: and probably go for the big diesel

jimz > E90M3 01/10/2020 at 09:38

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I drove an F350 CC long bed with DRW for a weekend a few years ago.  getting that thing around certain areas was, shall we say, ponderous. 

Nibby > E90M3 01/10/2020 at 09:38

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stop crushing my dreams

412GTI > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 09:39

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Longboi(s)

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 09:40

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This was all that came to mind:

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 09:41

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I always preferred the longbed slammed trucks rather than shortbeds. Not sure why the shorter beds are more popular - I see a lot of trucks online where owners convert them to short beds, but I never see the opposite.

This way it looks even lower and longer.
Nice job on the shops, btw.

Nibby > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 01/10/2020 at 09:44

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thanks! yea i guess for the short to long conversion you need to extend the frame and whatnot... cutting and splicing it is easier than adding

went from a 2015 ram 1500 supercab with 6'4" bed to a 2018 F150 with crew cab, 5'5" bed. i miss the longer bed, was definitely better

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 09:49

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I think most people that need an 8’ bed, and a crew cab, also need a 2500. And most people that want a 1500 don’t want to part a 20’  long truck. I see more and more 5’ bed crew cabs every year, and now the ranger and Gladiator are making ebben shorter bed “normal” in American eyes. 

interstate366, now In The Industry > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 09:52

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Thanks, I hate it.

E90M3 > jimz 01/10/2020 at 09:54

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Which is one reason why I can’t understand why someone would want to daily something like that unless necessity dictated it.

jimz > E90M3 01/10/2020 at 10:00

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you do get used to it. 

E90M3 > jimz 01/10/2020 at 10:08

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You do, but still why would you want to drive something that massive around. 

jimz > E90M3 01/10/2020 at 10:14

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I need a lot of room to put my Punisher decals and hang my Confederate flags from. 

Cash Rewards > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 10:15

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I swear the tundra did exist at some point, especially as tundra doesn't have HD options to poach sales from. It was a loooooong truck.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 10:30

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instructions unclear, no bed for you.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Cash Rewards 01/10/2020 at 10:34

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Correct. Though I think Toyota had the shortest of the double cab/ crew cab to accommodate the 8.1 bed. 

A Boy and His Longtail > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 10:40

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These are absolute units. 

Pickup_man > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 01/10/2020 at 11:00

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You see short bed conversions because shortbeds have enough demand that it’s sometimes cheaper to by a long bed and shorten it, you never see the opposite because there’s an abundance of long beds and they’re far cheaper than short beds.

I agree with you though, a slammed long bed looks the business .

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 11:12

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G ood god they're all 3 miles long.

Nibby > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 01/10/2020 at 11:16

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twss

Kiltedpadre > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 11:21

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They were actually available through GM in the late 90’s. I’ve only seen one in person, and it was pretty badly beat up. I believe they were available in 97 and 98 but I think that might be it.

Someone on a Silverado forum said the crew cab, half tons from those two years were built by centurion for GM.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 11:23

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I had a K3500 crew cab 8' bed. It was almost 21' long. I do miss that thing though.

Nibby > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 01/10/2020 at 11:25

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honestly i want to buy an OBS ford or even a jellybean F150 with an 8' bed

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 11:33

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LONG BOIs...

My friend’s 6-door Excursion is the same length as all these.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > OPPOsaurus WRX 01/10/2020 at 11:35

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Plenty of room for a front-bed, between the engine and the windshield.

Send Torch this ‘shop and ask him to draw it. Make it a dually. =)

HammerheadFistpunch > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 11:42

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I think they don’t exist because no one would buy one.  

Nibby > HammerheadFistpunch 01/10/2020 at 11:43

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HammerheadFistpunch > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 11:46

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They are making the sport trac again?

ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 12:03

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Just the look of them makes me think of the engineering limits you mentioned. Can the frame of a 1/2-ton handle that?

Nibby > HammerheadFistpunch 01/10/2020 at 12:06

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yes

HammerheadFistpunch > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 12:09

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and the Bronco!

Derpwagon > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 01/10/2020 at 12:22

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Yeah, I wanted a truck, but I didn’t want a super long bed. I got the 4 door shortbed F150. Super nice place to sit, and far more capable than I need or use regularly, at notably worse fuel economy than my Civic got . That said, I have a short commute (couple of miles) to the park and ride and I take public transportation to and from work, and when I do need the capability, the argument of ‘just rent one’ isn’t that appealing. I don’t want to rent one every time I go to drill and have to take all my gear, I don’t want to rent one to pull my Supra to another state, I don’t want to rent one to go trail driving, etc. I want a daily that I know and trust.

So, t ruck.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 12:55

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My dad has a ‘99 Dodge Ram with the quad cab and long bed.  Damn thing is near 20’ long. I go from driving my little ZX-3 to that monster, and it’s quite a change.  It’s soooo big.  

Nibby > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus 01/10/2020 at 13:01

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ultra thicc

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 13:12

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This is a 3500 Monster we sold in the fall. Notice how it’s both all the way over the curb and sticking out of the spot in the front. It was Hilarious to drive. We don’t need any more of these brutes around.

Nibby > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 01/10/2020 at 13:21

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s e e m s l i k e a n i c e t r u c k f o r c o m p a c t s p a c e s

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 14:02

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None better!

shop-teacher > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 01/10/2020 at 14:03

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I really wish I could have bought that thing.  It was so clean!

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > shop-teacher 01/10/2020 at 14:11

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I wish I could have kept it, but we had other priorities.

shop-teacher > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 01/10/2020 at 14:20

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Yeah, I know how that goes.

bhtooefr > ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy 01/10/2020 at 20:06

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So, let’s try to extrapolate this for an F-150.

Curb weight for a 3.5 EcoBoost 4x4 :

Regular Cab 8' bed: 4653 lbs

SuperCab 6.5' bed: 4851 lbs

SuperCab 8' bed: 5016 lbs (363 lbs heavier for the larger cab, 165 lbs heavier for the longer bed)

SuperCrew 6.5' bed: 4946 lbs (95 lbs heavier for the larger cab)

Hypothetical SuperCrew 8' bed: 5111 lbs (note that this is lighter than many of the diesels!)

The highest SuperCrew 6.5' EcoBoost GVWR is 7850 lbs. So, adding 165 lbs to the GVWR to support the longer bed is actually within reason.

bhtooefr > Nibby 01/10/2020 at 20:33

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There we go. A 3500 kg GVWR - well within the limits of a US half-ton - pickup with a 10.5 foot bed. Overall length of almost exactly 21 feet.

And no, there’s no Photoshop involved. That’s an actual van for sale in the UK right now. Diesel and manual, even! (Never mind that it’s a 2.0 liter 130 hp diesel.)

You prefer Ram instead? Here you go:

I think that one might be a shorter bed, but not sure. Still definitely over 8 feet.

ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy > bhtooefr 01/10/2020 at 21:24

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Well not just weigh t, but the way the forces create  bending and torsion on the frame is what I was thinking of.

bhtooefr > ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy 01/10/2020 at 21:32

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You could add bracing, though, and still be within an 8500 lb GVWR, I suspect.

Longtime Lurker > Nibby 01/11/2020 at 01:13

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All the people I known who own crew cab 6.5' half tons say they are hard to park.