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« on: September 16, 2006, 19:03:15 pm » |
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come on then guys what do you think - Buggy bars on a Cal Looker a good thing or a bad thing - whats your opinion  Some pic's would be nice  (I know these ain't mine) |
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Zach Gomulka
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« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2006, 19:20:13 pm » |
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I think buggy bars are COOL!
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« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2006, 19:47:44 pm » |
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i agree  defenitly cal look , only on 70's cal look not on modern cal look  |
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« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2006, 20:37:49 pm » |
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Totally agree, buggy bars are very cool.
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Lee.C
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« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2006, 23:17:14 pm » |
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cool looks like I'll be fitting them to my new project then  |
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« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2006, 01:50:23 am » |
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My first "looker" had buggy bumpers. They are way cool, and way "old school cal-look". I didn't have digi back then, but will try to post....
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Zach Gomulka
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« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2006, 05:32:48 am » |
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What about the shirtless dude in the short shorts! Yikes! Buggy bars good... short shorts bad |
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everything as it was at the good old days.
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« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2006, 12:40:52 pm » |
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buggy bars are cool, cool and correct. and then we are seeing too much ( even though they r great) t bars around.
let's do somethin different!!!! here we go with buggy bars!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2006, 20:01:15 pm » |
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IMHO... they suck!
Hated them back in the day... still hate them now!
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« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2006, 07:05:54 am » |
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here is a pic of my old street car. some of you guys will recognize it (bill)
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« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2006, 18:51:53 pm » |
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I will be trying some on my next project, how do you mount these things?
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Zach Gomulka
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« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2006, 18:58:30 pm » |
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My guess would be that they mount to the front beam and the rear frame horns?
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« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2006, 21:17:36 pm » |
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i had a front set on my cal look car in around 1988, they mounted on the 4 front beam mounting bolts ( i'm pretty sure?) i think the rear ones just mount to the stock bumper hangers. i'll be putting just a rear one on my '64 gasser, eventually. |
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« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2006, 00:23:27 am » |
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Back in '79 I made some mounts out of flat steel (damn, should have used aluminum) and used plumbers tape to make a secure rear mount (kinda like a custom hose clamp)....I'm sure everybody today has CNC and aluminum fabrication abilities. THEY STILL LOOK TOUGH!
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Lee.C
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« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2006, 00:35:50 am » |
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You probably use the same ones I used on my Manx, The front one simple has 2 tabs that are welded to the beam and then the bar is bolted to these and the rear is one is from Mark at Flatlands Engineering and is a proper bit of kit - it mounts to the frame horns and the craddle under the box which I think would be alot better than mounting it to the body/bumper mounts I will post some pic's of all the mounts soon  |
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« Reply #15 on: October 15, 2006, 07:42:51 am » |
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I will be trying some on my next project, how do you mount these things?
i welded 2 tabs to the beam and welded nuts inside the ends of the tubes and bolted it on |
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Lee.C
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« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2009, 16:58:50 pm » |
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might be time to get this one going again - Anymore pic's of those lovely buggy bars guys |
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« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2009, 17:24:50 pm » |
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« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2009, 17:26:01 pm » |
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Lee.C
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« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2009, 17:33:25 pm » |
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Now that is a nicew car - does it have a flip front on it  |
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« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2009, 17:36:00 pm » |
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What about the shirtless dude in the short shorts! Yikes! Buggy bars good... short shorts bad LOL is that Don Metz? LMAO The Front Buggy Bumper will will not work on an Bug you have to use two rears they were mounted back in the day by making 1 inch wide steel straps witch bolted to the inner front wheel well and the the strap was wrapped around the tube and welded to the buggy Bumper on the rear the straps bolted to the bumper bracket holes and was wraped and welded like the front also the rear buggy bumper was heated at the bends and bent up closer to the rear of the car instead of sticking out so far plus by bending it cleared the QP muffler and the fender since it has to be fished up in there see picture below |
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« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2009, 18:28:59 pm » |
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Now that is a nicew car - does it have a flip front on it it look like , but it's the same car as the one in the above in this topic , look like ken jevec Na don't think its ken's |
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« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2009, 18:33:37 pm » |
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« Reply #25 on: May 21, 2009, 18:35:27 pm » |
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« Reply #26 on: May 21, 2009, 18:38:16 pm » |
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« Reply #27 on: May 21, 2009, 18:42:00 pm » |
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« Reply #28 on: May 21, 2009, 18:44:10 pm » |
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« Reply #29 on: May 21, 2009, 18:46:00 pm » |
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