Bumper Time

I just recieved an email from a fellow club member in Saskatchewan telling me that he had came into posession of a model A rear bumper set up, complete with mounting brackets, etcetera. He sent me the attached photo, so I asked him to go ahead and ship it to me, as I have been thinking for a couple of years now how vulnerable the back of the roadster pickup really is. This will give me an additional project when the weather warms up this spring. I have to also complete the installation of the new dropped stainless headlight bar and front fender support brackets that I bought off e-bay. The weather is cold and miserable here, and I don't expect any improvement for the next 3 months. I haven't been posting much this winter, due in part to the forum being buggered up, and the fact that I'm not really doing anything 'Hotroddy" to post about. I just finished a bunch of machinery for the GM plant in Oshawa, Ontario, and on Monday I start a new contract designing a prototype mining machine for the mines up around Coppercliff.---Brian

See, there is always something to do to a rod Brian. :) I know you've been chomping at the bit to get your hands dirty again. That will make a nice addition to your car and give you some protection too.

Were your ears burning yesterday? Dan and I were talking about you. He is going to put a top on his RPU and spent the day shooting pictures of some at the car show. He bought the frame kit from Speedway to do it. He said to me "That Brian guy from the forums did a super job on his top." I agreed, I remember when you were going through all of that and did the posts on it. Your's came out very nice.

Don

My bumpers showed up here today. I just picked them up from the bus station, and hurried home to unwrap them and see what I got for my money. They are great quality chrome, and very complete with all brackets, although I doubt that I will use the trailer hitch assembly. A big thank you to "Fordnutz" out in Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, from myself.---Brian

You might want to rethink the trailer hitch assembly as I believe a small enclosed trailer would be an ideal addition to the RPU. Besides, it would give you a hot rod related project and I for one would very interested to see how you would design and build one.

If anybody out there in hotrod world has a model A with rear bumpers the same or similar to what I have posted, please run outside right now and take a picture of the back of it for me!!!:D:D:D Its been about 45 years since the last time I had a model A with rear bumpers on it, and I'd kinda like to see what they look like on a car.----Thanks----Brian

Okay---I found a couple of pictures of model A's with split rear bumpers. Has anybody got something better???

Thanks Denny---I found a few more on the "Ahooga" website.

It looks like there might be bit of a war between the exhaust tips and the bumpers, but I like the way the bumpers are split in the middle---that should work okay without hiding the license plate. I can always replace the exhaust tips with 90 degree turndowns if I have to. Actually, judging by the shots Denny posted, it looks like if I put the outer ends of the bumpers flush with the outside of the fenders, the exhaust tips should fit between them with no modification.---And if they are at the same height relative to the bottom of the fenders, I may not have to change anything----Wouldn't that be great!!!---Might even cover up those frog green coil springs!!

Denny---I knew you were a photo-wizard, and thought if I gave you something to work with that you might do that. Thanks a lot.

It seems to me that the chrome peices being fairly long and heavy, and supported at the outboard end of 2 1/2" x 3/8" flat bar, are going to shake and vibrate like crazy. Someome on that "other" forum emailed me, and said that there is a spreader bar that fits between the outboard ends of the bumper supports (the peice in the very top picture that does NOT have the trailer hitch welded to it), and that it connects to the vertical chrome bolts at the inner ends of the "bumpers" to keep them from shaking. the person sent me a link to a photo, but the link doesn't work!!! Can anybody shed some light on this???

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I can't upload it since it'll lose all the detail.

Image: http://www.msu.edu/~valkokir/Cl/Abumper.jpg

Unfortunately the spare is in the way but you can see that the "U" shaped frame that is sitting in your picture all the way at the back gets flipped over and brought to the rear of the car. The bumpers bolt to the loops and then the narrow loops on the "U" frame loop around the inner chrome pins on the bumpers.

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All the best,

Yep the bar will hold them steady Brian . When i removed the bar they were very springy back and forth .

It appears that I have found the "mystery parts". They are on the web site for "Mikes A Ford-Able Parts" and are described as "Holds the inside edge of the 30-31 rear bumper to the brackets----about 6" long --2 required.) Due to the custom nature of my installation, and the fact that these things are $18.50 each, I will probably fabricate my own from a peice of steel flat bar and tubing.

Seek and Ye shall find----and this cold wintry morning, thats what I've been doing. And "Voila'"---Here is everything I needed to know about installing my rear bumpers---with the mystery peices shown, even.

Well Sir!!! This might work out not too bad----