I enjoyed peeling back the layers of my rear bumper, getting it in decent shape and repainting it that I decided to do the same to my front bumper.
It looked like it was just the original bumper with 10 layers of repaint and repaint over the top of it, but after weeks of sanding, scraping and chemicals, I finally ordered a new one.
it's just so mishapen and built up with bondo and whateverelse that I just can't justify spending another minute on it.
the more I scrape, the deeper I realize it's time for this part to retire.
getting down to this layer on this end of the bumper was the last straw for me:
eventually you peel away enough layers that nothing is left.
- airkooledchris
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eventually you peel away enough layers that nothing is left.
1979 California Transporter
- RSorak 71Westy
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Re: eventually you peal away enough layers that nothing is l
Bondo bumper
Take care,
Rick
Stock 1600 w/dual Solex 34's and header. mildly ported heads and EMPI elephant's feet. SVDA W/pertronix. 73 Thing has been sold. BTW I am a pro wrench have been fixing cars for living for over 30 yrs.
Rick
Stock 1600 w/dual Solex 34's and header. mildly ported heads and EMPI elephant's feet. SVDA W/pertronix. 73 Thing has been sold. BTW I am a pro wrench have been fixing cars for living for over 30 yrs.
- Amskeptic
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Re: eventually you peel away enough layers that nothing is l
If it is a good German bumper, someone will want it.airkooledchris wrote: the more I scrape, the deeper I realize it's time for this part to retire.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- airkooledchris
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Re: eventually you peel away enough layers that nothing is l
If it was good, ID want it.
BustedBus makes those decisions so much easier to make.
BustedBus makes those decisions so much easier to make.
1979 California Transporter
- Amskeptic
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Re: eventually you peel away enough layers that nothing is l
Save it. Sell it to someone who wants it and is not all aesthetic about it. Somebody might want the bumper to act as a bumper and could care less that it is overworked. I kept my caved in rear bumper on the Road Warrior for 26 years, well-polished and waxed right over the dent in the middle, because I could stand on it anywhere without it twisting like the cheap Rocky Mountain Motorworks bumper I bought in 2001, the one that had a hard time fitting? that didn't wrap around the rear of the car like the original did? that bent down if you stood on the corner of it? yeah that one.airkooledchris wrote:If it was good, ID want it.
BustedBus makes those decisions so much easier to make.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- hambone
- Post-Industrial Non-Secular Mennonite
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Re: eventually you peel away enough layers that nothing is l
Yeah the hell with what's hiding inside. Bumpers get mangled anyway, I've learned to live with tweaked-but-solid old German stuff.
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it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat