So as luck would have it, my uncle does alot of buying selling and trading and today he ended up with a 1997 sportside that had a very nice roll n lock retractable bed cover on it! since hes planning to sell it, he let me have the bedcover in exchange for tuning his 2006 1500 he just bought! $100 worth of HP tuner credits and a couple hours of my time in exchange for a $1300 becover....yea Ill take it!!! After taking measurements I decided I should be able to make this thing work without too much effort. The only thing I dont like is that it weighs about 60 lbs and I was trying to reduce weight, not add it but whatever. At least I can get rid of the ribber made box i currently have my nitrous bottle mounted in and the bed cover should reduce wind drag so that might make up for the weight at the dragstrip.....I hope. Here it is in pieces. Ill add pictures of the install once its finished. I may have to weld some tabs onto the bed because my bed is a tad wider than the 97 sportside bed but we'll see!
