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Old 01-30-2021, 09:33 PM   #1
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Default Who has a pickup and fitted it with rear bumper bars

I'd like to hear from anyone who has fitted rear bumpers to a pickup. On this thread or by private message please.
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Old 01-30-2021, 11:21 PM   #3
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Here is my installation.
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Mine has the bumperettes from a car fitted. P/Us weren't sold here so this is a vehicle I brought into the country. The bumpers were already fitted but were only good for show so I redid them so that they would contribute something in the vent of someone ramming the rear end.
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Default Re: Who has a pickup and fitted it with rear bumper bars

I also want to fit bumpers on my 28rpu, probably with a tow hitch. Would like to see details on your brackets.
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Mine has the bumperettes from a car fitted. P/Us weren't sold here so this is a vehicle I brought into the country. The bumpers were already fitted but were only good for show so I redid them so that they would contribute something in the vent of someone ramming the rear end.
I'll check yours when I visit, which would have been last weekend but for heavy rain on Friday. I asked about bumpers but obviously should have said bumperettes, which I have purchased some time ago along with the brackets which would have come from a sedan or tourer and I had expected them to bolt straight on. Wrong.
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Here is my installation.

Is that an aftermarket cab and bed on your truck?
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Not only on pickup trucks....
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/264910369172

I was not able to download these good pictures of a pickup with the split rear bumpers. So please follow the hyperlink to an EBay listing of a Model A PU. Doesn’t look bad at all.
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Found another one..

I am planning on doing this rear bumper treatment to my 29 CCPU soon.. Awaiting for warmer temps in my garage.
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Is that an aftermarket cab and bed on your truck?
No its not , it was a peddlers truck and the guy before me chopped it up. Here is what it looked like when I got it.
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I have a 29ccpu I thought about rear bumpers but never acted on it.On your truck are those 2 tail lights void of the license lens and is the plate illuminated?
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I have a 29ccpu I thought about rear bumpers but never acted on it. On your truck are those 2 tail lights void of the license lens and is the plate illuminated?
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My right tail light does not have the license lens, on the left side it still has the license lens. My plate is illuminated. I found a license frame that has a light in it.
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Old 02-04-2021, 12:01 PM   #16
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Hi Gary, my '31 CCPU had rear short bumpers on it when purchased, the PO used some 2X4s to "augment" the installation.
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Hi Gary, my '31 CCPU had rear short bumpers on it when purchased, the PO used some 2X4s to "augment" the installation.
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If possible, I would greatly appreciate how the main bracket is attached at the front. You have the rear, but have no clue as to the front of the iron.
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If possible, I would greatly appreciate how the main bracket is attached at the front. You have the rear, but have no clue as to the front of the iron.
I don't have any pictures, but it bolts to the frame in the same place where the rear bumper supports for sedans and coupes do.
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Thankyou Katy and other respondence. When I get home I'll compare your replys to what I've got. Tell you a story about my bumperettes. When Patsy and I travel outback we camp on roadside or by creeks and billabongs. One evening we camped where some low class citizen had dumped a load of trash which included Model-A bumperetes which I took home. A Melbourne fellow needed them and I didn’t so I gave them to him. When I bought what call my Model A, "woofa express" I decided to fit bumperettes. So I imported a set from America. Then I saw a set of longitudinal brackets them to so another purchase and bumperttes came too. That makes 3 sets and still haven't got a set attached to Woofa Express. But will have soon.
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If possible, I would greatly appreciate how the main bracket is attached at the front. You have the rear, but have no clue as to the front of the iron.
I'll see what I can do about getting pictures of the front attachment.
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If'n one has the proper brackets it's quite easy to figure out how/where they're mounted, there's 2 bolts that go through the rear cross-member and 1 that goes through the frame, just in front of the rear cross-member.
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Thank you Katy, very helpfull.
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My garage warmed up and finally got these rear bumpers installed on my 1929 CCPU. Just wanted to have rear bumpers for safety, and if a break down the truck can be shoved off the road or push started... Sorry purests... I hope Henry Ford isn't spinning in his grave over this.....
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