Hello whats the difference between a Fulton visor and a Peckat visor which is better for the split windshield . Ihave always seen the Fultons on cars never new of the Peckats which one looks better . Thanks
I think you mistakenly posted your question in the Traditional Custom section, not the ugly gee-jaw section.
visors were the first thing hotrodders removed. visors have no place in traditional hotrodding or traditional customs
Opinions are alot like A$$ Holes everyone has one,Move on some people like it some people dont. Keep moving on .
Yuppers no one ran that crap on a real custom car back in the day. Those "frost shields" were the first thing to go in the dumpster if a car came with them on it if you were a real car guy. They were on stock "Old man cars" that usually had four doors and around here were driven out here from the Ozarks by migrant fruit pickers when migrant meant you followed the work around the country and was not an ethnic thing. You can dig through car magazines printed before 1977 and you will never see a visor on any customized car in features or rod trot coverage outside of a very few Bomba lowriders at a couple of shows. That is when Lowrider Magazine showed up and guys started junking up their cars to emulate the East LA Bomb look.
LOL. Never been to the Ozarks and have never been a migrant farm worker...but have run visors on several of my builds...when applicable. I like 'em.
Didn’t take long to get to the usual copy and paste responses. There’s more than one form of customizing. Magazine coverage? That’s just one source of documentation. Plenty of others examples out there. Even an authority of customizing recognizes this. https://kustomrama.com/wiki/Deck_Out
Here’s a couple visored “Kustoms” Supposedly this pic is from Custom Cars 1960 annual edition can be seen in Kustomrama for this version of it Without the visor And this one listed as also being in rodding and restyling, Jan 59 issue. Or it’s interior was. I haven’t looked at the actual mag. So there’s that. I’m no expert. Just some old pics that popped up
When I was about 10, my dad and I were at the annual Mothers Day (lol) swap meet / car show in Anoka. Dad spotted a Fulton visor that would fit the Mercury and asked my thoughts … All I can say is, don’t ask a 10 year old their thoughts on anything… Fast forward a few years and I was begging him to remove it, and of course he reminded me I was the one who wanted it on … It did come off and is still sitting in the garage rafters , about 40 years later …lol
Being around students has one big advantage. the opportunity to see things thru unexposed eyes. Meaning, the old cars they encounter either thru school or media, they see for the first time. The 4 door bias is mostly nonexistent. One student showed me a pic of a car recently he thought was super cool. A 59 Edsel 4 door. Probably had very vey teens in 59 do that. we test fit a visor on a 57 step van this last school year. I’d say it got a 99% thumbs up from em. on the 51 merc, the overall opinion was probably 50/50 the most surprising was when I discussed converting the 4 door 51 to a 2 door I got confused silence. The overall consensus was that the suicide rear doors are cooler than a 2 door. the Fulton I test fit on my 49 gm truck got thumbs up all around. (Shown then pics) the old man car bias seems to be nonexistent. When showing show pics in class, the style seems to not matter as they see spaceships built diffrebt ways. As they attend show, it’s cool to see the things they notice and comment about. I’ve heard comments about a modern looking color on an old car not working. Same with some wheels. the accessories on old cars that don’t exist today intrigued em. Spot lights, the one fog light on some, the prism on a dash, knobs, levers, switches, skirts, bumper guards and overiders, swamp coolers….. And visors. walking with em at shows I feel like a mueseum tour guide explaining what things are and do. I’ve learned so much from em 20 years ago I probably wouldn’t want a visor. Not the same anymore. Old cars just look different now
Anthony, it’s sweet and all that your kids see fordors as cool cars, and think visors are hip. But the HAMB’s Traditional Custom forum is supposed to be about real things as they were. Not what the next generation wants to change them into. If anyone can show me a Sam Barris Merc, or a Bettancort ‘36, with a visor, I’ll change my mind. The four-eyed wonder posted above is not gonna do it. And, of course this all my opinion. You guys can have your own, if you insist.
You can go page by page in Custom Chronicles looking at every car from every year and the only limited few he shows that have visors are a very select few East La Bomba lowriders that date back to the mid 50's. It is noted that they are Bomba lowriders. I have to be very tip toeing around this particular subject (hanging crap that is not custom on a car and calling it custom now) because relating to who did that stuff back in the day may be considered offensive or beyond to some. It seemed to be prevalent with certain cultures of people from certain areas and those guys would go to Western Auto, Coast to coast or get the JC Whitney catalog out and buy every gee gaw and trinket and bolt them on their car and call it customized the same as what we see with the brigade that now goes to Autozone and gets the stick on chrome stuff = port holes and gas filler covers and flame and pinstripe decals and stick them on their cars now. Or the guy with his new HOG jacket showing you his Harley that he says is "all custom" that has 100 lbs of Harley shop sales room trinkets fastened on it. I know a lot of you weren't even born in 1977 or are too young to remember what didn't cut it before Lowrider Magazine came on the seen. custom wise but research will show that junking a car up is not customizing. On the other hand if you want a 4 door sedan with a frost shield over the windshield and other trinkets I guess you could buy a fedora hat, Flannel suit and wear some well polished wing tips and look the part of someone's great grandfather posed stiffly beside the car for a photo taken by a box Brownie.
Kinda tough talk about what's actually "traditional" from someone who's avatar has street roddy mirrors and what appears to be a sunroof and smoothie running boards. Just sayin'.
I like them on some car have had them on some cars and took them off but kept them on other cars. Peoples likes are not the same.
Junked up customs of the Hamb era happened If it’s not stock, it’s custom even recognized by the authority of Kustomrama as “decked out” You dont have to like em I think gassers look worse than these. But it is what it is at least the “visors weren’t featured in magazines prior to the lowrider magazines” myth seems to possibly be false anyway. We’ll see customs built by poor farmers and field workers have plenty of room to fit in with the rest of the customs built.
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