I've been kind of digging around on here trying to find info on when people really started painting their fenderless hot rod frames to match the body. UH HUM! When the car was painted something other than BLACK! I couldn't find any clear time periods or facts. Found one old thread that touched on the subject but it was pretty much inconclusive. So when did hot rod frames start getting painted the same color as the body and what style cars were these? Was this as typical as it is made out to be now or were these just people building show rods? Would like to hear some feedback! If I missed a good thread somewhere, please point me in the right direction. Thanks!
Hmmm?? Around the time that the first car was ever painted black???? Mart3406 ============================
Looking at the color photos in the book "The Birth of Traditional Hot Rodding", it was most definitely commonplace by the late 40's...perhaps even a little earlier.
This is only a guess on my part but I would think 1932. The frames were exposed(no splash aprons) and painted to match the car. "Hey, that looks pretty cool" and the rest is history. Purely conjecture but seems to fit logically.
Well, 32 Ford frames were painted body color. Except for under the front fenders they were black. Haha, I type slow
Sounds about right, rodders who used "A" bodies did run the splash aprons without the fenders, though there are some '32-framed cars in Don Montomery's books that had different colored frames and bodies, though most seemed to have the same color.
In 1932 the frame and fenders were painted seperately from the bodies. The frame and fenders were all painted black, not body color. Mick
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