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11-10-2010, 06:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
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Chris D. -

Nice catch. Maybe a lurker in our midst.

CarloSW2

+1

Assuming 80" bed I'd guess 15 degrees.

That may be too steep for reattachment as Big Dave suggests. (Tufts would be wicked easy to do given transparency.) Regardless, it beats open bed, and cannot be worse than flat tonneau. Looks like good bang for the buck to me. ABA data would be the icing.

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