Old school state mud flaps
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Old school state mud flaps
Looking for pics and mounting ideas for a set of old school, state-logo rear mud flaps on my '66 F100. My truck has a set of vintage, black mudflaps currently that bolt on way up under the fender. The bolts are about 8" above the bottom of the rear quarter panel, right behind the rear tire. They're really long so that, even with that lost 8" they still hang almost to the ground.
The vintage state logo flaps I want to mount are only 12" tall (x 18" wide). So I'm trying to figure out how to get them mounted down low enough that they won't be all up inside the fender. Obviously, they need to hang below the bottom of the rear quarter so you can read what's on them. Have people hung mudflaps from chains? Or what did they bolt them to that low? I see some people mount them on the rear bumper but my bumper is not level across the bottom so that's not really an option.... plus I don't like them that far away from the rear tire. Geez... back in the 70s you used to see state-logo mudflaps on all the (farm) pickups but now they're a rarity. How did people mount them?
Let's see your old school mud flap pics. Especially ones with state logos! Doesn't have to be on a Ford. Something like this:
Iowa: The Tall Corn State | Photography by Nick Suydam
The vintage state logo flaps I want to mount are only 12" tall (x 18" wide). So I'm trying to figure out how to get them mounted down low enough that they won't be all up inside the fender. Obviously, they need to hang below the bottom of the rear quarter so you can read what's on them. Have people hung mudflaps from chains? Or what did they bolt them to that low? I see some people mount them on the rear bumper but my bumper is not level across the bottom so that's not really an option.... plus I don't like them that far away from the rear tire. Geez... back in the 70s you used to see state-logo mudflaps on all the (farm) pickups but now they're a rarity. How did people mount them?
Let's see your old school mud flap pics. Especially ones with state logos! Doesn't have to be on a Ford. Something like this:
Iowa: The Tall Corn State | Photography by Nick Suydam
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From: colbert washington
Dont know if this helps or not. This is a mud flap on a 65 4x4. It was bolted up under the cross frame support for the bed. Dont know how old it was or how long it had been there. It seemed pretty old as it was getting pretty well rotted. It hung down to within a few inches of the road and was about half between the rear tire and bumper.
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