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26/02/2019 12:54 pm
The last running board? (pics) I am now working (very slowly) on the 1:43 scale model of a 1947 Cadillac 75.
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In that year this biggest of all 1947 Cadillacs was the series 75, available as window partitioned limousine and sedan, both with optional folding seats. It was still based on the pre-war body, and would be continued into the 1948 season. But as I looked at pictures on the web of this lengthy sedan, I noticed the running boards.
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Running boards were still common when I was a kid, and I can remember riding on them, hanging on the the doorpost or anything else handy. But then, at least in American cars, they disappeared. I think the early Cords were the first standard production cars without them, about 1935 as a 1936 model.
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But was the 1947-48 Cadillac 75 the last American car with running boards? I know they lasted longer in trucks, and some cars imported from other countries had them a bit longer perhaps.
No prizes, no awards, just wondering what this fine forum's automotive historians think.
26/02/2019 7:32 pm
Not American but VW Beetles had running boards.
27/02/2019 5:54 am
MG had them through the TF of 1955.
Morgan held onto them a bit longer, but they evolved into just really long front fenders.