Bumper Strips
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Bumper is D3TZ-17757-A, standard equipment: 1973/77 F100/350 Ranger XLT (but that's not what this truck is, it's a Custom, possibly with an Explorer package considering the hood ornament).
This bumper has punched out rectangular holes for the tabs of the vinyl bumper strips to snap into.
The strips have to be hand pressed gently into the holes. The vinyl tabs are very prone to snapping off.
Bumper guards: The rubber pads were available by themselves (Carpenter has them), or came with the guards that are the same right/left.
There is no need to drill holes for the guards, as they mount in the same holes that attach the bumper. Bumper guards intro'd in 1969, will fit ALL 1964/77 bumpers.
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D3TZ-17K833-A .. Right & D3TZ-17K834-A .. Left / Obsolete / No Ford Dealer or obsolete parts vendor has any / AFAIK, not reproduced.
Bumper is D3TZ-17757-A, standard equipment: 1973/77 F100/350 Ranger XLT (but that's not what this truck is, it's a Custom, possibly with an Explorer package considering the hood ornament).
This bumper has punched out rectangular holes for the tabs of the vinyl bumper strips to snap into.
The strips have to be hand pressed gently into the holes. The vinyl tabs are very prone to snapping off.
Bumper guards: The rubber pads were available by themselves (Carpenter has them), or came with the guards that are the same right/left.
There is no need to drill holes for the guards, as they mount in the same holes that attach the bumper. Bumper guards intro'd in 1969, will fit ALL 1964/77 bumpers.
Bumper is D3TZ-17757-A, standard equipment: 1973/77 F100/350 Ranger XLT (but that's not what this truck is, it's a Custom, possibly with an Explorer package considering the hood ornament).
This bumper has punched out rectangular holes for the tabs of the vinyl bumper strips to snap into.
The strips have to be hand pressed gently into the holes. The vinyl tabs are very prone to snapping off.
Bumper guards: The rubber pads were available by themselves (Carpenter has them), or came with the guards that are the same right/left.
There is no need to drill holes for the guards, as they mount in the same holes that attach the bumper. Bumper guards intro'd in 1969, will fit ALL 1964/77 bumpers.
WOW - that picture and post brought back the memories.... Mounting the bumper guards and attaching the vinyl bumper strips was part of my very first job at the Twin Cities Assembly Plant back in '74.
NumberDummy is correct that the tabs were fragile - if they weren't lined up perfectly, when you hit them with the rubber mallet, they either broke or bent so bad they had to be scrapped.
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The first year they had me puttin' wheels on Cadillacs.
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.
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'49 Cattle-Hack, with tailfins modeled after the P-38, beat Olds to the market by a month, with new OHV V8.
Olds made three models that year, 88, 98 and urin8, for pissin' around town in.
Cattle-Hack had hidden fuel filler tube, gas station jockeys didn't know where, but knew where to lube.
Olds made three models that year, 88, 98 and urin8, for pissin' around town in.
Cattle-Hack had hidden fuel filler tube, gas station jockeys didn't know where, but knew where to lube.
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There was a round reflector button you pressed located under the tail light.
The tail light popped up and voila!, there was the gas cap!
The tail light popped up and voila!, there was the gas cap!
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In the early 1960's I worked on weekends at a local Standard Station in Bel Air, Sepulveda at Chalon Rd.
1953 Cadillac came in, gas station jockey pressed the right side reflector, nothing happened. He kept pressing it, it didn't move. He tried pressing and pulling on the lamp at the same time, it didn't move.
I walked over, pressed the left side reflector: BOING!
1942/47, 1948/49 '75' Cadillacs have chrome extensions with raised reflectors behind the taillamps. You lift the left side up to get to the gas cap.
In the 1950's, Nash had a hidden cap behind the left taillamp, lamp hinged at the top, lifts up from the bottom to get to the cap. Many people back then and today have no clue where the cap is.
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