were roll pans popular in the 60s?

[kustumizer]

did many people make roll pans for their car in the 60s? or did they keep the bumpers? Thanks Nate

[alchemy]

Are you talking 32 Fords or 58 Chevies? And do you mean 1961 or 1968?

Yes on pans for both cars in 1961, but more common on earlier cars. Not much in my 1968 mags had rolled pans except wild Alexander Bros. type stuff.

Old magazines are the best research sources, so buy some of the year you're trying to replicate and study up.


alchemy

[Cadillacin Marcus]

hmm... i hope so..

[kustumizer]

i geuss i meant on 60s cars. thanks Nate

[DrJ]

Yes, they were done.
Don't know whether you'd call them popular by todays standards because I think there's more customs and rods running and being driven on the street right now than were ever built in the 50's and 60's.
What they definitely did NOT do was just weld the bumpers or replicas of the bumpers on and paint them body color like 80s-'90s customs did.
The most common on customs was the '53-54 Studebaker front pan used on both ends, (I bet George Barris has a warehouse full of them still!,) and the '59 Buick rear pans.
Then they got custom nerf bar bumpers over that.
Don't make the nerf bars out of too small a stock they look silly if they are "dainty" or almost invisible on a large car like a Buick.
Barris did them right, Balion did too. study their cars and the definite style differences. Oh Alexander Bros. and Valley Customs' cars too.
Custom crafted bumpers in the scale of Corvette bumperettes were popular. although the actual Vette bumpers only really fit a Vette well, I'm just suggesting that style and size bumpers would look good.
Remember, nerf bars are "sporty" so they dont go as well with bubble skirts and "Lead Sled" treatment.
They look better on a car that is sports-styled, with radiused rear wheel wells that match the front ones in size and possibly a sectioned body with a stock roof like V.C. used to do.

[Deyomatic]

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Don't know whether you'd call them popular by todays standards because I think there's more customs and rods running and being driven on the street right now than were ever built in the 50's and 60's.

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Not where our hero, kustomizer is from!

[kustumizer]

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Don't know whether you'd call them popular by todays standards because I think there's more customs and rods running and being driven on the street right now than were ever built in the 50's and 60's.

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Not where our hero, kustomizer is from!

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eh i try!! Nate

[praisethelowered]

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Yes, they were done.
Don't know whether you'd call them popular by todays standards because I think there's more customs and rods running and being driven on the street right now than were ever built in the 50's and 60's.
What they definitely did NOT do was just weld the bumpers or replicas of the bumpers on and paint them body color like 80s-'90s customs did.
The most common on customs was the '53-54 Studebaker front pan used on both ends, (I bet George Barris has a warehouse full of them still!,) and the '59 Buick rear pans.
Then they got custom nerf bar bumpers over that.
Don't make the nerf bars out of too small a stock they look silly if they are "dainty" or almost invisible on a large car like a Buick.
Barris did them right, Balion did too. study their cars and the definite style differences. Oh Alexander Bros. and Valley Customs' cars too.
Custom crafted bumpers in the scale of Corvette bumperettes were popular. although the actual Vette bumpers only really fit a Vette well, I'm just suggesting that style and size bumpers would look good.
Remember, nerf bars are "sporty" so they dont go as well with bubble skirts and "Lead Sled" treatment.
They look better on a car that is sports-styled, with radiused rear wheel wells that match the front ones in size and possibly a sectioned body with a stock roof like V.C. used to do.

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Astute answer DrJ. . . I never heard anyone differentiate between "sporty customs" and "sleds" before, but they are definitely two distinct styles that were concurrent for some time. A comet (like Nate's) is sort of a factory "sporty custom" and would be hard to make into a sled.