M.Loughman Hi, i,m new to the site. I would like to know if anyone has tried to install an early chevy car or truck outside windshield visor on a 55-59 chevy 3100 pickup truck cab. I would like to try something a little different. I saw a picture in a vintage hot rod or custom magazine once. I would appreciate any help or suggestions please . Thanks.
I’ve seen them on the TF trucks before, Fulton was a known name back in the day. What are you going to try “different “ if you don’t mind me asking?
Ugly visors don't belong on traditonal rides unless you also wear the cheap flannel suit and fendora hat and highly polished leather shoes that the old men that drove cars and trucks with Frost shields did in the 40's and 50's. They were listed as "frost shields in GM accessory catalogs. Yes, they were sold as frost shields to keep frost off the windshields of vehicles then, not as sun visors.
Seems most of the visors installed on these (55-59 Chevy) trucks in recent years are a modern short visor. not the old fashioned ones that you saw on late 30s-early 50s cars. Which is what the OP was asking about. I think these trucks look really nice without the visor. But I did have a visor on the 51 Hudson I had, and it fit the look of the car pretty well. If the car had not come with it, I would not have bought one for it, though.
That’s a good ***umption, but does the OP want a visor made in the the early 50’s for a car to adapt, or one that just was made for an early 50’s car. I’m still wondering what the modifications involve
The repopulate visors made for 55-9 fit like junk. Will take several hours of fab work to make,it look nice.
The 55-59 trucks that do not have a visor look a person with a bowl-cut haircut…I have had two 55-59 truck and both had visors…just think they look cool!
There may be issues with where the roof ends, versus where the corner of the window frame is. Things do not agree. Also, the fact that the A-pillar is angled in the opposite direction commonly found in a p***enger car of the mor common "visor era" might cause some issues, too. Bre-wraparound windshield ones commonly attach at the windshield trim/a-pillar drip rail. By the time that sedans moved to wraparound gl***, visors seemed to be a bit less common. That said, they were out there, but if you compare one to what I posted on the red truck, the seem to be closer to that in shape: This last picture shows the common attachment for a 1958 Impala. It is up on the horizontal drip rail: That would be difficult to do with a TF truck, given how far back from the windshield that the drip rail starts. Fulton and similar style visors that use side brackets might be ultimately adaptable, but you would need some elaborate brackets:
sure would be a lot easier to just leave the stupid thing off.... (chevy built in a little visor on these trucks, you know)
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