|
Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
01-02-2018, 01:03 AM | #1 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: papillion nebraska
Posts: 406
|
Door lettering initials
Recalling in my early years a fad of lettering the upper door area just below where one might rest his arm with his initials & the passenger door with your significant others initials as well....anyone have some examples they have recreated ?
|
01-02-2018, 08:45 AM | #2 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: upstate SC
Posts: 2,964
|
Re: Door lettering initials
no pictures but we used navy signal flag decals. saw a lot of beach wagons in NE with these on the doors
|
Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) |
|
01-02-2018, 09:06 AM | #3 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Florida and Penna.
Posts: 4,471
|
Re: Door lettering initials
Large letters and ads down on the large panel will
cause the metal to raise and has to be sanded good or they will show through the new paint. G.M.
__________________
www.fordcollector.com |
01-02-2018, 11:16 AM | #4 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: East Hartford, Ct
Posts: 5,898
|
Re: Door lettering initials
I believe what is being referred to is what some wealthy and important people used to put on their cars to personalize them.
I don't remember it ever being a fad and if it was, it was a local thing and was extremely short lived.
__________________
DON'T RECALL DOING SOMETHING FOR MYSELF BASED ON SOMEONE ELSE'S LIKES OR DISLIKES |
01-02-2018, 11:33 AM | #5 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: North of sandy ago, CA.
Posts: 2,064
|
Re: Door lettering initials
Cruiser fender skirts were the choice for that kind of advertising. Easier to delete bad choices.
Bruce
__________________
Works good Lasts long time |
01-02-2018, 11:58 AM | #6 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: papillion nebraska
Posts: 406
|
Re: Door lettering initials
Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements)
Last edited by RB; 01-02-2018 at 12:02 PM. Reason: spelling |
01-02-2018, 12:29 PM | #7 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: West Hammond, Illinois
Posts: 2,793
|
Re: Door lettering initials
Here is an example as seen on a 1941 Norman Rockwell painting.
Last edited by TonyM; 01-02-2018 at 02:05 PM. |
01-02-2018, 01:00 PM | #8 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2015
Posts: 287
|
Re: Door lettering initials
I remember these from the 1950s. As I recall, they were stick on chrome letters about 1/2" by 1".Most parts stores sold them.
|
01-02-2018, 01:32 PM | #9 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Troutman, NC
Posts: 119
|
Re: Door lettering initials
Got mine at Western Auto. 3/4 " square Gold with Black Letters, or Chrome with Black Letters. Mine stayed on the drivers side of 1935 Tudor, passengers side got changed a couple of times.
|
01-02-2018, 02:07 PM | #10 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: new britain,ct 06052
Posts: 9,390
|
Re: Door lettering initials
Any "striper" can do it for you. My boss has it on his 36 Auburn Speedster (plastic car).
Paul in CT |
01-02-2018, 02:39 PM | #11 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Oakhurst, CA
Posts: 140
|
Re: Door lettering initials
In the late 50s it was popular in So Cal to have a name on your ride, usually white script on the rear quarter panels, some times only on the deck lid. I remember "Bloody Mary" on a red 40 Ford coupe, "Patty Wagon" on a green 50 Chev 4dr (Girlfriends name was Patty),
"Va Va Voom on a red 47 Chev. Hadn't thought about that for a while. |
01-02-2018, 03:17 PM | #12 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Maltby, Washington
Posts: 187
|
Re: Door lettering initials
I was not born until 1957 so didn't know anything about what happened then but I did have my wife's VW Beetle painted and pinstriped in the early 90s and had the pinstripe guy put a nickname on the door. Thought it looked cool but did not know I was bringing back a 50's thing.
|
01-02-2018, 03:29 PM | #13 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Orcas Island Washington
Posts: 4,937
|
Re: Door lettering initials
I lived in Massachusetts in the late '60s and early '70s. I loved seeing the beautifully maintained dump trucks, often Macks, Sterlings and Brockways owned by local contractors with the company name in gold leaf on the door. Often you would see the owner's name on his door and his wife's on the 'helper side' door. The large construction type front bumper would sometimes have their kid's names at both ends. They always seemed to be a dark Brewster green, red wheels and frame, white pinstriping and lots of chrome. Two years ago I bought this '47 tonner from the nephew of the original owners in Silverdale Wa. The seller said they always called the truck 'Uncle Oscar'. Oscar and his brother George had farmed in that area. Trouble was Oscar had a 'hunchback' and could never comfortably drive it even though he owned it, so His brother George did all the driving. When I got it home and was cleaning it up I took one of those yellow junkyard paint markers and wrote Uncle George on the driver's door and Uncle Oscar on the helper side.
__________________
Owner/Operator of 'Jailbar Ranch' on the side of Mt. Pickett. Current stable consists of 1946 1/2 ton pickup turned woodie wagon with FH V8, 1947 Tonner Pickup (red) mostly stock with exception of a cummins 6at turbo diesel, 1946 Tonner Pickup (green) with 226 cu in 6 cyl flathead, 1979 Toyota landcruiser wagon, completely encased in 1947 Ford Jailbar sheet metal. Ok, cornbinder rear fenders..... 'Rusty ol' floorboards, hot on their feet' (Alan Jackson) |
01-02-2018, 04:52 PM | #14 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Cape Cod MA
Posts: 2,840
|
Re: Door lettering initials
Back in the 1960's I bought a Model A with the sellers initials on the drivers door and his wife's initials on the passenger door. All done in small letters very neatly. By coincidence his wife's initials on the passenger door were the same as mine and his initials on the drivers door were the same as my wife's. This was a problem of course as my wife was always the passenger as she did not have a drivers license. Our solution? We left it alone and just explained to the few folks who noticed.
|
01-02-2018, 08:28 PM | #15 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: papillion nebraska
Posts: 406
|
Re: Door lettering initials
I recall too the fad of song names on cars, my brothers 52 Chevy business coupe was tagged on the left quarter by an individual running a red light, while still drivable be adorned the damaged fender area with a popular song of the time "Tragedy" by a group I believe called the Delon's. This was 1959 if memory serves me well.
|
01-02-2018, 09:39 PM | #16 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Klawock, AK/Kanab, UT
Posts: 301
|
Re: Door lettering initials
Quote:
|
|
|
|
Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) |
|