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Quoted from BCpinhead:

You can see I left the side rails on. I'm really wanting to keep them on for the main reason i'm very concerned that I will dent them taking the nails out and I simply cannot buy new ones. They are flawless now and scratching and bending them would really really suck. Are they glued on too? Or just nailed?
I need to keep this a very simple project and not get all ADD and order new Chrome and bits and get side tracked. I'm confident I can mask around the side rails but if there is a simple method of taking them off and they are not glued, then maybe I should take them off. I ran out of time and did snap pic but cab and backbox are sanded down to bare wood now.