Folks Of Interest Have you ever seen a chromed frame!!

I was thinking how great it would look a chrome 32 ch***is...since I've never seen one...

 

Can't see it, and frankly I don't think I want to

 

Hopefully you own a chrome shop, then you can use it as an advertizing write-off.

 

Take a moment and try and visualize the size of the chemical tanks needed to pull off something like this. Oh, by the way the Orange Crate has a chrome frame. It's been done.

 

If I remember right, the guy the owns Advanced Plating in TN built a '32 with a chrome frame

 

I was thinking about it, and cleaning the rails when p***ing over a puddle...

 

My recollection is the The Emperor had a fully chromed Model A frame. It is a Barris kustom 1929 Ford roadster, now owned by Blackie Gegian, it was AMBR around 1959 or 1960 after the Ala Kart had won the previous two years.

 

I've seen a few, mostly on show cars. Pat Ganahl's new book, "Hot Rod Gallery", shows a chromed 32 frame under a 29 highboy on page 67.

 

Thanks for the examples ... guys, I think for a car show would be good, not for a day car ...

 

I remember when we lived in Minnesota in the 70s, I went to a car show and there was a root beer '57 Chevy, tilt nose with a completely chromed frame. Some one told me that the owner had an "in" at 3M in the twin cities and the frame was done in their industrial chrome facility. Maybe some of the MSRA guys will comment after they recover from the 'back to the 50s" this weekend.

 

I remember seeing one called chromzilla a few years ago.

 

...here's one:

 

There was a t bucket in a hot rod magazine from about 1959 that had almost every part, including the frame, chromed. The guy owned a chrome plating shop. I have that magazine somewhere in my collection.

Don

 

fab one from stainless and polish it
j

 

There were a few Hot Rods with chromed frames that made car magazine covers in the 1960's. A chromed frame was a common thing on top end Sprint cars as well as INDY cars in the late 1920's and 1930's. Bob

 

About 30 years ago I saw a working logging truck up in Idaho, that was either chromed or polished aluminum, pretty strange.

 

i recall seeing a 32 roadster at the old hotrod reunion in penngrove about 6 years ago that had a chromed frame been that way for a long time if i remember correctly

 

"I'll take TWO, while you're at it."

 

I chromed a rigid 1950 Panhead frame (think Captain America) although the tank and fenders were black..looked pretty good back in the late 60's. HRP

 

The shot of Blackie and his roadster with the roadster flipped up it's side on it's wheels to show the chrome ch***is is a famous one. http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com/thehistoryof/0810rc_blackie_gejeian/photo_06.html

At least one guy built a completely bolt together ch***is so he could chrome it in the 60's or 70's

 

used to have a neighbor with a '64 Impala, that had the frame chromed in Mexico (this was only like 15 years ago)... damn near everything on that car was chromed. there were more than a couple lowriders with all chrome frames...

as far as hot rods, other than the ones mentioned above, i can't say i can think of any others. just lowriders.

 

Been done by this guy in the late '40s.

 

ahhhh.... damn that's purdy.

 

In the late 1960's and early 70's Richie Willet built a C-cab T wrecker with a nailhead Buick with twin 6-71 blowers and it had a chrome Model A frame.They made it a bolt together so it would fit in the tanks.South shore Plating in Quincy MA did the plating;Kelsey Martin did the pearl and ribbon paint job and I did the striping on it.

 

thats the one i saw,,, fantastic

 

Wow, very good examples ... now that's style .... they wanted to go faster but also cared about the aesthetics of their cars....

 

A 40 ford from the Bay Area had a chrome frame. The car is still in the Bay Area. I saw the black Roadster at the hotrod display at the Oakland museum, what was that 20 years ago?

 

There was a Model A Roadster from here in Manitoba that Al Bodnarchuk owned in the late fifties through the later sixties and it had a completely chrome frame that got changed during its "rebuild" in the 90's. Candy red with magnesium 5 spoke wheels. Full fendered car.

 

...Russ, you are absolutely correct...

Quoted from the Text...

"The body was channeled 8 inches over Z'd 'rails of a fully chromed ch***is."



https://www.hotrod.com/articles/the-emperor-still-reigns-blackie-gejeians-historic-model-a-roadster/

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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/blackies-chickencoop.1037882/

...48, Blackies ChickenCoop albeit highly detailed with chrome on the underside did not have a chrome frame...but he did own the The Empire for some time which as mentioned did...

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