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You'd have to redesign and fab the entire front end to accept the '72 bumper but then the car would forever have the stigma of "Was it hit and repaired wrong?".
Embrace your '73, they're great cars.
Long story.Cliffs: I'm attempting something similar now $1,500+ in chrome/braces/brackets/material. Then, the body work will drive you insane.
Lets not even talk about the paint matching or cutting up a great car.
The above is why I bought a basketcase project car...cant ruin a basket case
it canbe done, but it takes a bit of glass work. and it takes a bit of compromise. settling for differences between your nose and a 68-72 nose. if you want to consider this, you need bumper. bumperettes, hockey sticks, 69 grilles and turn signal lights. you don't have to have the horse shoe and other underneath pieces. you can fit these parts to your 73-up mount hardware as it is not gonna be anywhere near OEM copy in the first place. FAR easier would be to get a 69 nose. used or aftermarket. you want 69. 70-72 grilles and egg crate side vents are very pricey. and trying to stick a 69 bumper straight on the front of a 73-up oe or glass bumper cover is just fugly. the opening in the front of the nose on a 73-79 with bumper cover removed is very close to the opening on a 68-72. i am going to do this mod soon. but i have to finish getting out of jersey and moved to florida before i can get back to it. here was my first mock-up on my 75. i think the hardest part will be the 2 lower outer corners. the 73-up are angled in and the 72-older grilles or hockey sticks will not fit without some re-work on the fender contours. the missing hunk between the 75-up headlights can be cut out of an aftermarket bumper. not needed with 73-4.
Last edited by derekderek; Mar 30, 2022 at 08:11 AM.
