reproduction of SOR brush guard. can we make it happen?

[Folkert]

I must admit, that I like the retro style brush guard, once available from sor, but unfortunately no longer available.

Doesnt seem to be a difficult part to reproduce, and I have the idea that more mudders would be interested in this as well...

so lets start a thread to show our interest for reproduction and hopefully someone will take the opportunity to reproduce these nice retro style brush guards.

its also allowed to post your pics of your original SOR brush guard to get an idea what it looks like on our beautiful rigs.

 

[Folkert]

these are the ones I mean...

ripped the pics from here.. if thats ok..

 

[74fj]

It looks alot like the one on my fj. I bought my truck from southern callifornia and it has all kinds of old confer and sor parts all over it. To bad your so far away b/c I would sell the bumper if someone was deadset on having it like it sound you are. I will try to post pics later just because I have never posted a pic of my fj on the forum yet.

 

[Folkert]

haha you are right,
i'm always interested and can set up shipping too. I probably have to buy it from the US anyway, new or used.

you can send pics to my email: folkert@formlab.nl

thanx.

 

[Larr75fj40]

I just gave one away a couple of months ago, I had it for years and nobody wanted it.

 

[cjgoode]

Seems like you could take those pictures to a small fabrication shop and they could make one from the pictures pretty easily.

 

[hindsight]

Ask the guys at Metal Tech....a while back they were looking for possible new products to make.

The worst they could say would be no.

Doc

 

[lcwizard]

styles come in and out of fashion. I started building what Man-a-fre calls the aussie grill guard in 1990.

Aussie Brush Guard

For twelve years it was a tremendous seller, moving about 100 per year. Then , literally overnight sales
dropped to about 5 per year. The market shifted to beefy rock crawling bumpers with formed heavy channels and a more minimal frontal coverage. The same happened in the 80's when everyone had either a prerunner or a truck jacked up so high you needed a ladder and four chrome shocks on every corner.

I personally still like the looks of that piece and prefer that style on certain buildups. My employee
runs the aussie grill guard on his truck...

FJ40 Mojave Leaf Spring Suspension

However, I think we're in the minority for now.

If you could get someone to tool up for about twenty units , my guess is that they'd sell in the 250~295 range. A single piece would be at least 4~5 hours, plus parts... or 400~500 at normal shop rates

 

[JohnnyC]

love the look of the sor ...and had an Aussie MAF from 1995? or so...loved the brush guard...

it was also one of the reasons my truck didnt sustain more damage than it did on the front when I rolled it on the highway...that and i had a tow bar..i think was a MAF also

LcWizard...thats a great guard you make...the welds held up no problems...one side tweaked down a bit...but thats the side that hit 1st

thanks for making great products

 

[3DAMAN!]

I am also running the one peice design on the '77.
I Like it a lot.Tough as any I have eve looked at.
Though about finding some one with a tube bender to make up another for the '78. Wouldn't be hard to do.

 

[CardinalFJ60]

styles come in and out of fashion. I started building what Man-a-fre calls the aussie grill guard in 1990.

Aussie Brush Guard

For twelve years it was a tremendous seller, moving about 100 per year. Then , literally overnight sales
dropped to about 5 per year. The market shifted to beefy rock crawling bumpers with formed heavy channels and a more minimal frontal coverage. The same happened in the 80's when everyone had either a prerunner or a truck jacked up so high you needed a ladder and four chrome shocks on every corner.

I personally still like the looks of that piece and prefer that style on certain buildups. My employee
runs the aussie grill guard on his truck...

FJ40 Mojave Leaf Spring Suspension

I havehe SOR brush guard on my 40 and it's just that...a 'brush guard'. it's pretty flimsy...the MAF one looks to be MUCH better designed.

 

[Speed King]

That's the kind of brush gaurd I have been looking for, really wasn't even sure where to look. I'd buy one new or used if one came available.

 

[davegonz]

Yeah, I dig those brush guards, too. I'd snag one if I could find one locally.

 

[74fj]

Not quite the same. I don't know were mine came from then.

 

[Sully73FJ40]

Same here, hard to find

 

[Masonblackmon]

I don’t guess anyone knows where to locate these style bumpers? Or if anyone is making reproductions or kits?