I am also planning out the 1938-1939 Holmes wrecker bed for my truck. I will build one from scratch.
This way it will fit better with my wheel base and truck frame. The bed will look like this HAMB members truck.
My plans are like this. Bed is 60" wide and 90" long and 36" high.
I will be using either the 1935-1937 ford pickup rear fenders or the 1940 ford pickup rear fenders. Don't know which yet.
I have the Holmes bed sides and bulk head sized and formed up.
Now I can start building the replica Holmes 440 wrecker.
Here I transferred a template of the back of the cabs body line to the bulk head.
Then I trimmed the top of the bed to flow with the body lines on the cab,
punched a bunch of holes for plug welding a 3/16 x 3/4 bar along the edge.
Then I welded the bar on and finished up the welds.
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