Slick 60's

Hey all!
I'm looking for rechromed bumpers for my '65 F100 and was hoping for some recommendations as to vendors. Also, the current front bumper appears to be too wide. Were later model bumpers wider than Slicks or do they all look that way? If someone could give me an overall length of a stock bumper it would be much appreciated.

A stock bumper is about 80" long and about 7 1/2 wide, i am not sure about other models bumpers. I have found chrome bumpers in the blue oval truck parts catolouge and probaly from denis carpenter.

The Key to the front bumper is having the correct cut at the end in which the cut is at a angle which goes to the front instead of being rounded at the edges, of course some of these vendors will tell you oh yeah it fits but they are wrong on how they fit angled cut 64-66 rounded end 67-77 with no debate in between

67-77 is what is on my truck. Its OK, in fact it may be better in some ways, as it can bend a little and not smash my lower valence.

That's what I tell myself -- in reality I hate it and kick myself for not realizing that you can have someone straighten the original bumper. I left the original (which was bent, but not bad) at the body shop and it went from there to scrap heap, gone forever......

It sticks out a little longer than stock and doesn't match the curve of the lower valence correctly.

Someday I will find a stright 65-66 bumper and have it chromed up all purdy.....

FWIW I have a 78 bumper on mine

Heavyhauler wrote:FWIW I have a 78 bumper on mine

I like how it looks I am being given one like that off a 79 Bronco. I was thinking up a way to make it fit closer to the body, snug it up I guess. How far out to the sides does yours go? I cant tell from a photo. doesnt look like its too wide at all, which was my other concern

It was a fluke I pulled up next to a buddy's 78 F 150 and noted the bumpers matched. It seems the holes line up for mounting OK.

It sticks out some. You can see the stone shields curved ends. I think its OK though

ok, thats what I was thinking. mine is going to be painted ( I think, lol) so I could cut it shorter at the ends, then figure out how to make it tighten up to the stone guard more

I was told by the previous owner that the front bumper came from a '72. I'm changing it at any rate because it's marked up from now-deceased bumper guards and doesn't really do the paint job justice.
By the way, how do you get pictures up on this thing?

FordGuy wrote:I was told by the previous owner that the front bumper came from a '72. I'm changing it at any rate because it's marked up from now-deceased bumper guards and doesn't really do the paint job justice.
By the way, how do you get pictures up on this thing?

Seems most guys use the gallery

I use Photobucket

Here is a pretty good tutorial
http://www.460ford.com/viewtopic.php?t=20273

Here goes nothin'.

FordGuy: Wow! What a nice truck. I've always been partial to the turquoise and white scheme, but alas I seem to be destined to have Red slicks. I especially like your wheel treatments. FYI: The uploading to the gallery function is broken and has been for a while.

Wow, what a great looking truck! Welcome aboard, BTW.

I'll throw a pic posting hint in too. Make sure you type your message on a separate line from any [img] tags from your pics. Otherwise your words will begin in odd places, attached to the beginning or end of the pic, like above.

Are your rims chrome steelies with painted centers, or something different? They look great!

I really appreciate all the kind compliments.
Caribbean turquoise and Wimbledon white has been my favorite color scheme since I was a kid in the '60s. My truck was originally all white, so the two-tone wasn't much of a reach.
I bought the 8" chrome wheels with paintable centers from Wheel Vintiques. They company was very helpful and the wheels were relatively cheap at about $100 each, delivered to Iowa. I just had the body man paint them with the truck.

I really appreciate all the kind compliments.
Caribbean turquoise and Wimbledon white has been my favorite color scheme since I was a kid in the '60s. My truck was originally all white, so the two-tone wasn't much of a reach.
I bought the 8" chrome wheels with paintable centers from Wheel Vintiques. They company was very helpful and the wheels were relatively cheap at about $100 each, delivered to Iowa. I just had the body man paint them with the truck.

Whoa Dat is PURDY!!

Hey Johnny! Gotta love Opus the penguin. I'm going to try to put up a few more pics. I'm not sure how to make them available as a gallery like many of you guys have, but I'll get it figured out when I have more time.

You're doing just fine with the pics, don't fret a thing.
Thanks for the Wheel Vintiques info, I'm taking note of that.

Thats a bad a$$ truck

Z

Just for grins, do you have any "before" pics?