Flex bumpers
Drifting
Joined: May 2006
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From: Circleville Ohio
Team Owner
Joined: Jun 2000
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From: Southbound
Cruise-In II Veteran
Reproduction urethane covers are also now available.
Be aware the flexible fiberglass covers are not 100% flexible. They simply will give more than replacement fiberglass covers before they break.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: Livonia MI
While fiberglass will offer virtually zero crash protection, just about all of these need some custom body work to make them fit right, and fiberglass is easiest. Maybe talk with the shop thats going to do the paint work, and see what they say. Also, if you do find NOS, may be warped up bad as yours.
Safety Car
Joined: Jul 2005
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From: WI
I agee to what Vette 5.5 wrote. I think he got it right. I bought a True-Flex fiberglass bumper for my 81, then didn't care for the fit. I could have made it work, but opted to go with a reproduction urethane front bumper. It too required fitting and some tooling of the bumper. It's pretty straight, but not as arrow straight as I could have made the True-Flex. However, my reasoning with going with the urethane was ultimately based upon the mindset that when I go to sell my car it'll be more original and therefore will be worth a couple hundre bucks more than one that a perspective buyer may think was 'hit' and the bumper replaced with a cheaper bumper cover. The other reason I went with the urethane is that I'm doing an original restoration and back in the day a slight amount of waviness was typical and so it doesn't bother me that there is some waviness. But what is important to you may be a whole other thing.
Mark G
Mark G
