BakBox does for the toolbox what BakFlip does for the tonneau cover.
The BakFlip tonneau cover changed the landscape of the tonneau cover arena. For the first time, a hard tonneau cover on your truck didn't mean sacrificing your valuable payload capability. By folding away completely, you could now have a hard tonneau cover on your truck and when you needed to load the truck with large gear, you simply folded the BakFlip out of the way, as if it wasn't even there.
Now BAK Industries is about to shake things up again by turning their focus to the toolbox arena. Since toolboxes take up valuable space inside your truck bed and are pretty much a permanent fixture, your ability to lock up your tools comes with a price. Not so say the engineers at BAK. The BakBox will do for the toolbox what the BakFlip did for the tonneau cover. There when you need it and gone when you don't.
This raw video footage was recently shot at Galpin Ford, the largest Ford Dealership in the world where they install BakFlip tonneau covers on 80% of their trucks sold. If you're like Bert Boeckmann, the owner of Galpin, I'm sure you'll agree with his enthusiasm that the new BakBox is about to turn an entire industry on its ear again.
New Tonneau Box – Invisible cargo box for trucks with tonneau covers
BakFlip folding toolbox for BakFlip tonneau covers
For the past few years BAK Industries has been working on a revolutionary new concept of combining a toolbox / cargo box to integrate with BakFlip tonneau covers. The idea would be to incorporate a cross the bed style box (suspended on the side rails) with the panels that make up the BakFlip cover. Since the panels on a BakFlip cover are patented to be able to open up behind your cab like the lid of a toolbox, BAK's idea was to use the panels themselves as the lid of the box. It's a brilliant idea that is soon to be released to all those folks that own a BakFlip tonneau cover. Give us your feedback and let us know what you think? In the meantime, here's a sneak peak at a demo model still in the R&D stage. The final product is scheduled to be released in early November 2010.