Fisher Body Manuals

With creating a Fisher Body manual collection and add products to our vintageplanet.ca website, memories coming back from before my adulthood. I did some research about the Fisher brothers Albert, Fred and Charles Fisher, whose family had built horse-drawn carriages in Ohio in the late 1800s, they opened Fisher Body in 1908 in Detroit. They produced car bodies for the likes of Cadillac, Buick, Ford and Studebaker before General Motors purchased 60 percent of the company in 1919. They (the Fisher brothers) must have experienced the same teenage years as we, car guys all do. Growing up in a small town named Kapelle in the Netherlands, there’s plenty of opportunities to enjoy some type of outdoor activity. Scraping my knees, bruising my knuckles and turning wrenches, as some teenage boys do growing up. An old peddle bike was my first set of wheels and got my first taste to make body changes (hotrod) to the frame and wheels. Through friendly competition racing these old bikes was what inspired me to go faster than the other kids in the neighborhood. Early in my teens it must be around the age of 11 I hopped up from peddle bikes to Mopeds and again we make the necessarily changes to let the mopeds look better and go faster. I applied my knowledge and inspiration and the need for speed into dirt bike racing. At the age of 16 we were allowed to drive our mopeds legal on the highways and provincial roads, so I traded my dirt bike for a legal road worthy moped. These mopeds came from the manufacture with standard features what looked awful in our eyes. With aftermarket parts and a lot of mechanical and fabricator skills we made them look better and go faster for ourselves but also to impress the girls. In nowadays terms we would call this a Restomod. If we had the ability and knowledge we have now, we could have walked the same pad as the Fisher Boys. The story about the Fisher Boys can be an inspiration for all of us who build there own Hotrod, Restomod or whatever ride, big or small. Look into our collection of Fisher Body manuals and get resources on how to find and install the right parts and manufacturing to the existing body of your ride. Check out the manuals.