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Old Sep 13, 2005 | 06:04 PM
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Car: 87 firebird formula
Engine: 400 sbc
Transmission: 700r4
front bumper

here's a few photoshop pictures..
tell me what you think.
here's before
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Old Sep 13, 2005 | 06:05 PM
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Car: 87 firebird formula
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no bumperettes
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Old Sep 13, 2005 | 06:06 PM
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Car: 87 firebird formula
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no two tone
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Old Sep 13, 2005 | 06:17 PM
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dude, 85-90 TA bumpers look so awesome! do it!

two tone or not, i could go either way...
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Old Sep 13, 2005 | 07:01 PM
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Idid not like the bumpers on my Formula, So I swapped a 82-84 style front bumper cover with trans am grill inserts.

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Old Sep 13, 2005 | 07:09 PM
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Car: 82 firebird s/e 83 Trans Am
Engine: 5.0L 305ci 4b carb.....CFI
Transmission: TH200C....700R4
yeah ,do what dave did.Much cleaner.Those bumperettes are plain nasty.


our cars would look similar if you got that bumper....do it


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Old Sep 14, 2005 | 02:55 PM
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hey man...i got an 86 bird...took the bumperettes out...if thats hwat they are called...you can see it in one of these pics

http://photobucket.com/albums/a306/caseball2051/

it was alot more work than i expected.
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Old Sep 14, 2005 | 07:14 PM
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the car's in primer right now, think i'll do what casebaseball did.
thanks for your imput
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Old Sep 14, 2005 | 07:18 PM
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it took a while. just to warn you. it took like 5 good coats of filler. make sre you use flexible stuff too
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Old Jan 22, 2012 | 12:00 PM
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Re: front bumper

anyone know the best way to go about doing the bumperette delete like casebaseball205 did?
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