Re: Bob's fiberglass and Spider bumpers

[Ian Lomax <sfalfisto@domain.elided>]

Tony,

The Euro cars continued with the small chrome bumpers
that we got here in 71-72.  These can be retrofitted
to a later car relatively easily.  The fronts are much
more difficult.

It might be worth looking into a rear bumper that's
about the same size as the rubber one, but half it's
length, and then duplicating the fronts. Make the
mounts the same so they bolt right on.  Otherwise, if
you're going to change it significantly anyways, just
go the whole route and retrofit the earlier style
stainless steel bumpers.

Cheers,
Ian Lomax
71 Spider (best year for Kamm tail IMNSHO)
75 Alfetta GT (waiting for bumper upgrade)
74 GTV (just waiting for attention)
Redwood City, CA

--- Tony Martie <tony@domain.elided> wrote:
> O.K., now I am really interested in some 'glass
> bumpers.
> Bob Wright sez "Give me one to copy, and I'll make
> it out of 
> fibreglass."  Well I don't want to copy the ugly
> 'merican safety bumper.
> What I would like to know is what do the Euro
> version rear bumpers on 
> the late 70's-early 80's cars look like?  Surely
> they had nicer, 
> slimmer bumpers than the US versions?  Did they keep
> using the chrome 
> ones or?
> ???
> Tony Martie
> 78 Spider
> http://tmpd.net
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