[Floyd]

I have a pic of the bracket from my '40. The bracket was "farmer welded" to the bed side along with lots of bad welding on the broken fenders etc. These trucks used on the farm had everything crack and fall off. The farmers rewelded everything back together until they got tired of doing it and then just threw the parts away. This included the tire carrier and the rear fenders. That is why these parts are hard to come by. When I removed all the dogsh*t looking weld from the bracket I found the two holes shown in the bracket. My opinion was that these were originally riveted onto the bed as there was no other welding on the bed parts. Everything eas riveted. I installed my bracket with button head screws and filled the heads. Others may disagree and know way more than I do.