early and late running boards are they different?

i know the chrome strip is wider on earlyer but what about the shape or anything?

deon

yeah theres 2 different shapes
i think it changed when 12volt bugs started
old 6 volt front gaurds have an indent where the running board meets them

later 12volt running boards are contoured to match the gaurd and the gaurd is smooth

the chrome strip is different too but thats just a cosmetic thing
pre 67 had the fat chrome strip
68-72 had the medium strip and 73 on had the real thin one

hth
Joel

Most new running boards come with wide stainless strip strips...

although My Sons running boards He bought about 25+ years ago had thin aluminium strips...
they dent easy...

I am going to put the wide stainless ones on My running boards one day...
if only they had come with the holes...
I hate drilling new holes in things...

and something I hadn't noticed Joel...
the running board indent on the early guards...
that have disappeared on the later guards...

cheers

Lee

thanks guys year i see what you mean (looking at it now) about the indent at the front

cheers deon

me and a mate found that out by accident when we fitted the running boards of his 64 onto his 70 and had this big gap at the front where they met the guards

i see ppl making the same mistake time and time again with those stainless look (yes there just chrome metal not stainless grab a magnet see for urself) louvered running boards

nobody seems to realise they are meant to go over the top of factory running boards, they are not a replacement running board
thats why there paper thin and just fall off when the kids step on them and also have no mounting holes

[ Edited on 11-11-2006 by DUB74L ]

but you can have magnetic stainless ,just a lower grade than non magnetic:thumb

yeah i know what u mean pod,
but most of the allegedlly stainless dress up stuff made in taiwan is just chromed metal i;ve seen them rust away in 12months on one car living by the beach
low grade non metallic stainless doesnt do that

i went to buy some and they told me they where the same..pfffffft nah managed to get a nice thick replacment ruber for my originals needed to be straightend a bit from years of little shopping bumps but they will come up great
cheers dudas
deon