Technical Visor Info Fulton Exterior

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.

 

Are you sure ? You must be looking at Ford Barn .

 

visors were the first thing hotrodders removed. visors have no place in traditional hotrodding or traditional customs

 

I like em both
Picked up a Fulton a few months ago

the other one has more bright work usually

 

Some folks forget this place isn’t just for rods.

also customs.

 

I like it!!!!

 

What kind of ride ya building

 

Opinions are alot like A$$ Holes everyone has one,Move on some people like it some people dont. Keep moving on .

 

Yep. The word “visor” usually wads up panties

 

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

 

I need one for a 53 Dodge PU...Help

 

Seems like a lot of the Fulton ones were kinda universal. Mine adjusts a lot.

 

Q: didn't Fulton make those flip-down things so you could see the red light?

 

Just look up traffic light viewer

there’s a couple different styles

 

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.

 

..and they all stink and no one wants to hear them.

Larry

 

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.

 

Just because you dont like it
Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen

You dont have to be on board at all

 

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.

 

You tha MAN Anthony.

Ben

 

Anthony you my HERO tell it like it is.