This is one Heavy Duty Bumper and I've always wondered who manufactured it.
Who made this bumper?
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Looks homegrown to me. Looks like they took a pick up bumper and added gussets and a mounting plate to it.
I don't think it's a homegrown. I remember seeing these on trucks in the 70's. A local firehouse. About eight of the firefighters in there had cruisers and they set them up in pretty much the same ways. About half of them had gone to a bumper like that, as best I remember, and all had ball mounted 8 foot whip antennas, jerrycan mounts, and those folding steps to reach the conferr racks.. Different colors but all new. Their parking lot was visible driving by the place and it was the first time I'd noticed land cruisers.
A truck bumper company - that type had a name that I can't remember but I had a '65 GMC pickup with one on.
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Wow I haven't heard or thought of Confer in a long time, Confer roof racks..could be.. I pretty sure it's not a custom build..sure fits great.
This is from 1992 catalog. Te recessed step bumper is the only one that is remotely close. All the others are either single or double tube bumpers.
For the diamond plate bumper you would most likely need to look further back then 92'... Confer had been making parts since the 60's... I think Downey carried one like the one you posted Alex as well in the 70's
Sears had those bumpers as well as JCWitney they were made for lots of vehicles chevys fords jeeps...
It is 'like' all the others (including confer)
It is most likely not a home brew bumper ... But... A manufactured bumper from that era
Sears had those bumpers as well as JCWitney they were made for lots of vehicles chevys fords jeeps...
It is 'like' all the others (including confer)
It is most likely not a home brew bumper ... But... A manufactured bumper from that era
Barden. They had a patent on that style of bumper from, at least, 1949.
Almost every truck I knew in the '70s had one. I think tube bumpers were invented because people were bored of them.
Patent US2492914 - Combination rear bumper, hitch, and foot platform for vehicles
Yep, "Barden" was the name I couldn't remember. Tough bumpers. Plumbers would mount vises on them, there's been cantilever hoists with hand winches on them, all sorts of things can be done with those flat horizontal surfaces. If a truck had a utility bed it also had a Barden bumper.
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Another bonus of this bumper is the number of Bumper stickers I can plaster on it. I took one off before I took the pix, political in nature, it's not good to inject politics (or religion) on my favorite forum. Nor will I replace it with a political or religious bumper sticker.