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If there are no holes in it. then it is probably not original. It should bolt together just like the fleetside only without the wheel wells. When you say chrome strips are you talking about the ones that they sell to cover the old strips or the kind that are made to be welded onto the sides of the box? There are two types. These trucks never came with the type that cover the old strips. Is the L shaped peace that you are talking about have the same little humps along the edge like the center strips do? If they don't then they are not original.