Chrome bumper bubble back?
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From: Baytown Texas
Chrome bumper bubble back?
I had a thought about converting an 81 to a chrome bumper front and rear keeping the bubble back window. Has any one seen this done? Refinement of late C3 w/style of early C3. 
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If you took a French poodle to University Medical Center and asked them to surgically implant the head and tail off a German Shephard onto the poodle's body. It would still be a poodle.......just weird looking.
Burning Brakes
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wow and i was getting flamed like crazy for wanting to put a 73 front clip on my 81...to each his own, do what you want its your car man! just dont expect much support, i know i didnt get it, so i said screw it, and left it alone
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Originally Posted by Corz
I guess thats one of those "looked better in your head" deals 
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I saw a red one years ago.I don't know what he started with but it was vary nicely done.No gooffy paint just red, bubble window,chrome bumbers.I liked it.Best of both worlds and most if not all non vette owners didn't have a clue.Take the one in the pics,lose the paint and the flairs and it ain't bad.Might have come to pass with GM anyway if the federal gov. hadn't stepped in with all their regulations on crash safety witch we all know was the ins. companys way of reducing costs.After all they were 5 mile an hour bumpers.Who gets hurt at that speed?
Take the one in the pics,lose the paint and the flairs and it ain't bad.Might have come to pass with GM anyway if the federal gov. hadn't stepped in with all their regulations on crash safety witch we all know was the ins. companys way of reducing costs.After all they were 5 mile an hour bumpers.Who gets hurt at that speed?
Last edited by copter; Jun 15, 2006 at 11:12 PM.
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Originally Posted by copter
I saw a red one years ago.I don't know what he started with but it was vary nicely done.No gooffy paint just red, bubble window,chrome bumbers.I liked it.Best of both worlds and most if not all non vette owners didn't have a clue.Take the one in the pics,lose the paint and the flairs and it ain't bad.Might have come to pass with GM anyway if the federal gov. hadn't stepped in with all their regulations on crash safety witch we all know was the ins. companys way of reducing costs.After all they were 5 mile an hour bumpers.Who gets hurt at that speed?
Take the one in the pics,lose the paint and the flairs and it ain't bad.Might have come to pass with GM anyway if the federal gov. hadn't stepped in with all their regulations on crash safety witch we all know was the ins. companys way of reducing costs.After all they were 5 mile an hour bumpers.Who gets hurt at that speed?
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Originally Posted by Crazy81
This conversion would not be cheap.
If you did it the other way around like the yellow/brown car is, it wouldn't cost near as much.
That looks like a '72 that someone took and installed a big back window.
The picture is very old, look at the tread on those old Radial T/A's. that pattern hasn't been around since the late 70's when the '72 wasn't too expensive to buy and customize by adding the "new" bigger back window.
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Originally Posted by Driftwood
Mod81-- will we be seeing your car at one of the Morris Cruise Nights this summer? I try to make them but missed the one last weekend because it looked like rain all day.
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Eckler's used to sell a kit for this modification. It was designed to use the stock 78-82 C3 rear glass OR a Cars & Concepts rear opening hatch window kit simmilar to the 82 Collector Edition. I wish I had my scanner up and running because the picture in the catalog makes it look like a factory build.
They had another kit that used a flat hatchback. Not quite as stock looking but looks are subjective.
-Mark.
They had another kit that used a flat hatchback. Not quite as stock looking but looks are subjective.
-Mark.
Burning Brakes
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From: Atlanta Ga
these cars you can build anything you want and make it look factory.
Since ive killed the value of mine guess i shouldnt add the side pipes now.
Since ive killed the value of mine guess i shouldnt add the side pipes now.
Last edited by JustForFun; Jun 16, 2006 at 07:57 AM.