Can Cycle Fenders on Hot Rods look good?

19 61 car running 354' inch blown Chrysler a 6-71 blower with a Tabucchi intake, and 8 carburetors. It had a Winfield cam, and Tabucchi built the pushrods and lifters for it. The rear-end is a Halibrand quick change, with a 3.78:1 gear ratio. The transmission was a 37' Buick,

 

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Mine has them on the front.I would like to have them on the back but Tires are to big.Used trailer fender.Not to keen on the look.As for what mine were i can`t help you.Just dug aset out of a pile a a local bike scrap shop.

 

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There is a period perfect Red 29 high boy roadster on Deuce rails from Penna. that added the discrete rubber mud flaps. A little detail that sets it apart from the rest. His are just a tad smaller.

The tubing mounts on that modified are especially nice. I had some detail shots of them but I can't find them now. I love how there enter the side of the fender to get more tire clearance. Flat bar stock has a tendency to flap in the breeze at speed.

 

One Finnish individual, looking good or not...?

 

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Darn JimB, that is TASTY! More' o that please!

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Yep, here it is, Darrol Finger's '34 five window as seen in Custom Rodder No.1

This is one of my favourite Australian Hot Rods. Now only if I could find a five window

 

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Well i,ll be damned . Thats the Ringwood Bowling Alley.
That sure brings back memory,s.There were lots of rods in
the eastern suburbs in them days.

 

My car had some on it in the 60s they have a small scoops in the front of them to give them a little extra. They are hanging on my garage wall now.

 

look good? Who cares... I´m chicken.. I just don´t want to get muddy. They work! Paint them black suede and you can just ignore them. And don´t cut them too short (the cycle ones) or they look stupid.
If you don´t like them.. That´s your problem. You ain´t gonna ride shotgun with me!

 

I like the cycle fender up front with a bobbed fender in the rear. The look is far closer to an LSR Street Roadster than fenderless is.

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Cword, is that an issue of Kustom Magazine?

 

No That's the September issue of Nitro, from France.
Gilles and I are "pen pals" I tried to meet up with him when I was passed through Grenoble in 2001. Since then we swap magazines t-shirts and stuff by mail. He sent me this issue last week. Gilles goes by the handle Frenchrodder over on the RRT.

Mike

 

No, but ya gotta do what ya gotta due.

 

Hey C9. My ol' buddy Goober just brought me two '36 Ford spare tire covers from his junk pile. I cut out two fenders from one, 135deg. each, (32"). They look great on the front of my '27 lakester. I'm working on the brackets tonight. The bead in the center is 1 1/4" wide; the whole width of the tire cover is 5 3/4" and if you measure across the side arc you get right at 7". The long arc is perfect for 140-90/16 motorcycle tires. I have your book, "California Hot Rodder". I plan to re-read it.

pigpen

 

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I could live with this but fortunately I don't have to.

 

Thanks for such a great response on this thread.
My conclusion is that: 'Yes, cycle fenders CAN look good'.
I'm comforted in seeing that it is also historically correct for a late '50's early '60's hot rod - which is what I'd like to build. Thanksawholebunch, fellas...

 

Yes, they can look REAL good. I am PISSED off that I can't recall where I saw some pictorial (early 60's HR?) showing tubular (front) fender brackets, two(?) vertical and one horizontal (90 degrees to the verts). The horizontal crossed both verts and linked them. All attached to the backing plate. Not (nearly) as heavy looking as it may sound. Actually kind of elegant and looked nice and rigid.
Anybody remember that car?

 

Has anybody seen the 404 lately?

 

IMHO the 36 tyre covers are the only sane option. If you must.

I've just moved interstate and HAVE run them now. I can't tell you how it shits me after 10 years without them.

 

I have cycle style fenders on my '36 "Fordillac", fronts are the '36 spare ring, and the rears are '37 Buick sidemount spare rings. It's surprising the difference in looks the fenders make, I like them and think they make the car. Of course, if a guy doesn't like 'em, that's OK for their car, but I think they look very correct, and enhance the lines of the car.

Here's some "with" and "without" pics, I don't seem to have any of it without the fenders in primer with the hood and grill on, but you get the idea. The car looks lower, longer and just better with fenders. Plus, I was pelted with gravel just driving from the shop to the house on it's maiden voyage. Fenders, good, gravel in face, bad.

 

I plan to use permanent front fenders and have a set of removable rears for use on long trips. Time will tell if I actually get them fab'd up. I really like the looks of the fenders on vintage European sports cars and some early hot rods. But most hot rod fenders don't look too functional - as if they were put on just to pass vehicle inspections. I figure if you are going to install them, might as well make them look as nice as possible, eh? Here are some pix of interesting designs. I really like the Prowler fenders. Later, Gary

 

and a few more.... Gary

 

I think for then to look any good they need to really hug the tire, as little gap as possible.
A guy in know here in NZ has taken a different tack for his 351C trike. He took a mould from his tires, stretched the "sidewalls" a little and then made them in fibreglass, so when fitted they are real close and with matching tread pattern look like part of the tire, best of both worlds, fenders without looking like having fenders.

 

I've always thought it would look cool to cut a big ole drag slick in half and use it for rear fenders on a T-bucket. Maybe glue it around a steel or fibreglass fender for support.

 

heres a couple more, i just finished the orange ones there old plymouth spare tire covers cut down and 3/8s rod contoured to tires., george

 

there not my thing, but ive seen them look pretty good if done on the ride car..

 

The coupe is back with Charlie’s grandson.