Thread: Running boards

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Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

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That one must have been buried, but Uncle Bob can still find the goodies - I went thru 5-6 pages in Google ( metal shop fabs will most likely still be cheaper tho )

I have a great idea. Whether you find some, buy some, or make them yourself---cover them with rubber. If you paint them, they look beautifull, and you will spend the rest of your life yelling a kids to "Get the H#$!! off the running boards!!!"

Here is a picture of chromed or diamond plated boards which look great on a red '29. There is a problem with weak fiberglass boards. In my case I wanted to keep the weight down so I put a strip of 1/4" aluminum plate 4" wide under the 'glass boards and then added aluminum diamond plate on top. You could buy Model A braces and modify them, they are not expensive. I ended up with 'glass with 1/4" aluminum plate underneath and diamond plate on the top. It looks a little bit vulgar but the diamond plate bumps will hopefully solve the scratch problem for some time. If anybody out there thinks it actually looks good let me know but I am dubious myself and think most of you are just being polite. I am not sure about the metal on the nice '29, mine is aluminum diamond plate; if/when I get tired of that look I may have them covered with truck bed compound (black) but I have more important things to do on the car now and will leave the "false flash" there for now. I am trying to remember the running boards on a '35 Chevie coupe my family had back in the 1940s and I seem to recall a steel board with a checker pattern but I am not sure.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Go pick up the new Street Rod Builder on stands now. Pretty good step-by-step fab of running boards.