65 FJ45? Incorrect frame?

[Bella1992]

I just won this and bring a trailer. Paid 25,000. I tried to put this bed on which should fit but it doesn’t. I think I have the wrong frame. I’m not gonna move the axle. I’m not gonna cut the bed up. I think I might just go with a utility flatbed. Anybody else have any ideas?

 

[bhsdriller]

pics of the frame with the bed off could help

what is that one off of

 

[Bella1992]

I just realized I put this in the wrong forum. Anyway, the bed is a sliced up Ford courier for the original bed and the replacement was just a 1965 short wheelbase bed.

 

[Bella1992]

 

[Bella1992]

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[tahoe40/45]

Could be a fixed top SWB bed that you have. Fixed top cab is shorter than removable top cab. Frames are the same, but difference is made up with the bed.

 

[whitey45]

Antony, I think the fixed top beds have more inner bed supports and no taillights in the bed?

 

[middlecalf]

Yeah no taillights in the bed, just the rear frame cross member. Bed is longer than removeable top bed.

 

[tahoe40/45]

Antony, I think the fixed top beds have more inner bed supports and no taillights in the bed?

Yeah, i thought the bed was fiber glass at first because of no supports. But your right the removable top did have less supports. But fixed tops did have lights in the bed.

 

[whitey45]

Wow!! All these years, have never seen this!! Must have been a really short run/ transition year? Dont see a spare tire rack under the bed? Very curious!!!

 

[tahoe40/45]

Wow!! All these years, have never seen this!! Must have been a really short run/ transition year? Dont see a spare tire rack under the bed? Very curious!!!

Thats my first FJ45, it's a 1964 with a vin in the early 15000's. I bought it pre internet so I didn't know much about SWB Cruisers and about the spare tire carrier. It was probably there when i bought the truck but didn't realize what it was. It has a smooth roof also, no ribs.
According to SOR frame chart it's a late 63 build.

Stolen photos

 

[middlecalf]

It’s amazing to think of all these subtle variations in these early rigs and how Toyota was rolling each change into its production line. I’m familiar with the global push for Japanese quality back in the day by the likes of Demming, et al, but it’s hard to imagine how this sort of apparent real-time production line variance supported that.