History Early customs with running boards removed?

I was curious if anyone had photos handy of some early examples of customs with their running boards removed? I'm specifically looking for 35/36 Fords, especially 3 windows.

I attached a photo of the 36 apparently owned at one time by Lynn Yakel. A great looking early custom in my opinion.

 

Check out Kustomrama.
This guy built a few like that.
https://kustomrama.com/wiki/Harry_Westergard

 

https://www.customcarchronicle.com/early-custom-cars/removed-running-boards/#.X5SUpiQ1iEc

Here are some more

 

Thank you, I hadn’t seen that article until now.

 

Personally I love the look. Rik’s article nails it. The first 38 Packard Darrin had running boards. The second didn’t. Only a handful of the Hollywood Darrins retained running boards.
On my Packard I rolled the sills to really accentuate the flowing transition.

 

https://www.customcarchronicle.com/?s=Removed+running+boards&submit=Search#.X5ShECQ1iEc

several more here on these threads

 

New member here...here’s a pic of my grandson’s 1941 Merc.

 

41’s didn’t have running boards. 40 was the last year for Ford and Chevrolet. My sons 40 Chevrolet is not going to have them after the repaint. He’s going to do some work on the front of the rear fenders. Front s have been done..

 

You sir are right, my mistake...but I will admit 41 was before my time! Not by much though.

 

The panel below the rockers, some people consider this a running board on 41`s. A highly modified 41.

 

I really like the old coach built look . Makes them a bit more streamlined

 

Some of them get a piece of sheetmetal, mini roll pan on the sides to smooth out the frame. It makes the car look lighter or having less heavy parts.
prob one of the coolest, but this one is also channeled to hide the frame!

 

3-Windows built by Bill Ross in Yakima. The black one is now owned by Scott Howell in Pasco.

 

This is my 40 from 1950 when it was chopped and channeled, and how it looks today. My 39 Merc is also channeled so the running boards were removed on this as well

 

have you got any front shots of the blue one please ? Thanks

 

My dad was a teenager in Sacramento and he saw first hand some of the customs that Westergard and the Barris brothers were building in the 1940s. When my dad built his 36 Ford custom in the late 1950s he left the running boards off like what he saw on some of the Westergard and Barris cars.

George Barris' 1936 Ford Cabriolet.


Gene Garrett's 1936 Ford Cabriolet built by Harry Westergard.


1936 Ford coupe built by Barris in Westergard's shop.

 

My question is....... why?????


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Leave em on!!!!!!


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I always dug the look starting as early as the 2nd grade, 1947

 

Early 50`s

 

I don't have pictures of it but, my first real car was a Forty Ford Coupe that had been channeled over the frame, dechromed and painted Turqouise. It had no running boards. The spring eyes and been reversed and it sat low and drove like a sports car because it had a built Flathead with Fenton cast iron headers, Offenhauser heads, a Mallory dual-point distributor, and '39 transmission. On top of that it had a pair of Jeep seats. For a teenager in North East Mississippi in the Late Fifties it was like being both an Indy Car Driver, a Movie star, and an untouchable Juvenile Delinquent all rolled into one. But, just like Cinderella's Coach, it eventually turned back into a pumpkin.

 

Be nice if we could keep it to actual early customs...like the title says.

 

Thanks for all the photos guys. A few cars I haven't seen.

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It looks like a race car!!

 

Rocket’s hot rod garage, Thanks for that. Neat hot rod !