Thread: what do you do to protect your running boards

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Don,

No offense, but I just can't look at diamond plate on anything but a trailer floor or a truck bed. It makes my eyeballs hurt. A defective gene, I suppose.

I approached the problem two ways:

1. I painted the running boards on my '31 A-bone. I stepped over them, and informed anyone riding with me that stepping on a running board would be grounds for summary execution.

2. My '34 coupe has no fenders, hence no running boards.

Problem solved.

Henry, thanks for the polite comment. I recently got new glasses that darken with light so maybe that is why I can handle the glare! It was a surprise to me that the running boards produce a strange herring bone reflection in the sides of the body, that is one feature that does not please me but most rods are changed again and again over the years so maybe the running boards will be changed/covered in the future. As an aside your comment about having a running car and tooling around the loop (discouraged by the local officers) at Virginia Beach has been a great inspiration to me to get my car running and maybe with garage heaters I can get the wiring done over the Winter. The guy at It's-A-Snap asked me if I would be working on it this weekend as if it can be done in a few days. It probably can by an experienced person but I have to reason out every step so If I get done by March that would be good for me. Then it will be able to get inspected and driven without a top until I can wait in line at the shop I have chosen for final upholstery and a top in the Summer or early Fall.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

with the clear tape....




FIL truck with step pads.....

Has anyone used rhino lining on them? I'm all for the rubber pads on top. Hell running boards are meant to be used!