THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, August 5, 1994                 TAG: 9408050668
SECTION: AUTO WEEKLY              PAGE: H1   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: BY MARY SCULLY
                                             LENGTH: Short :   32 lines

PUTTING A LID ON OUR TRUCK BEDS TODAY'S TRUCK OWNERS ARE COVERING UP THEIR FLATBEDS WITH TONNEAU COVERS, LIDS AND CAPS.

[This story is not available electronically. For complete text, please see microfilm.] ILLUSTRATION: Staff color photo by MARK MITCHELL

Kim Bell of Portsmouth holds her daughter Harlee by her camper shell

pickup truck. Bell added the cap to her truck, so she could carry

the stroller and diaper bag. ``I needed the space for all the baby

stuff,'' Bell says.

Staff color photos by PETER D. SUNDBERG

Raymond Funk, with daughter Paige, 16, started with a bedliner and a

cap on his 1988 Ford truck.

Joe Costner poses with his son's truck, which has a fiberglass lid,

providing locked storage.

by CNB