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Old Mar 4, 2002 | 04:55 PM
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Wanna see my Fu[ked up front bumper and its removal?



Trying to find a new bumper as of now some reproduction shops are crazy with their prices one wanted $545.00 w/ shipping for a skin 92' z28 bumper i just hung up on him.
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Old Mar 4, 2002 | 09:31 PM
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What happened to it?
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Old Mar 5, 2002 | 07:03 AM
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If $545 included paint, you're not going to find it a lot cheaper than that.

I can ship you a new unpainted aftermarket bumper for around $200+ shipping. I don't remember how much the lower valance is, but if you're interrested, email me and I'll check.
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Old Mar 5, 2002 | 11:27 AM
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whats wrong with it? If it is just a couple scrapes they make filler for it. I would repair it unless its cracked.
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Old Mar 5, 2002 | 03:45 PM
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its beyond repair, and that price was without paint. So far i got a great price for $169.00 just hope he has some left.
heres more of it

Believe it or not this happened 2 years ago and i repaired it with bondo but kept on reappearing so i just gave up on it and took it out. This incident happend 3 days after i bought this car and it was mint. I was driving about 35mph in the rain when all the sudden my car was skidding after a turn and i hit this late 80's stationwagon corner rear bumper and it went flying into the curb while my bumper cracked. Hard to believe in just going 35 mph but no damage to the guys bumper so he we were both amazed.
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Old Mar 6, 2002 | 11:33 PM
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I screwed up my front bumper the same way. slid into the rear of a dodge reliant going less than 5kph. cracked my bumper a little bit and the guy i hit tryed to sue for back injuries and $500 damage to his rear bumper!!
LOL

he dropped it when I laughed at him for five minutes over the phone.
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Old Mar 7, 2002 | 04:53 PM
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lol, you could send that nose to me, ha ha, it looks a hell of alot better than mine, mine makes me wanna puke!
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Old Mar 7, 2002 | 05:13 PM
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junkyard......
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friend
go there during the day, take out most of the things holding the nose on.....then leave, comeback at night take off the few remaining fasters, grab it have your friend waiting in the pickup on the road near the j/y, throw it in the back and RUN. Price...a gal or so of gas....LOL J/K, i am not advacating stealing from junkyards.......I bough mine....$40, needs paint but other then the fine, included GFX, headlights and all the other stuff in the nose.

was for the black car, but that is totaled.....once i saw the price of these things I decided to keep the thing for the white car.

P.S. I rear ended a F-250 at 7 mph or so and it ****ed up the steel bumper on that and 1 scratch on the camaro. LOL

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Old Mar 7, 2002 | 05:35 PM
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Well to be honest im really happy,
1. Getting new front bumper this week
2.Paiting whole car over next month
3. Just bought a set of SLP runners and Air foil for $125.00 from this cool guy.
4.After painted and motor broken in, im gonna finally see what it does in the 1/4 mile on street tires.
I have been waiting a long time for this, And its finally happening, Today was depressing since it was beautiful outside and my camaro is in my backyard without the motor in it . Sort of miss driving down the street with T-tops off. This is gonna be one of the greatest summers of my life.:hail: :lala:
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Old Mar 8, 2002 | 03:31 PM
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dude , what'd u do to remove that front bumper . how do u get to the bolts holding it to the fenders , cuz im trying to swap mine off , and i cant quite reach these bolts . so if u can please tell me how u got it off , and btw if u want to u can get my front bumper , its not in a bad condition , the only problem with it is a cracked gfx , and its red, but i still have to get it off to get to the fenders, so please tell me what u did to take it off
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Old Mar 8, 2002 | 03:55 PM
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ur gonna need a 3/8's ratchet with extension and 10 mm socket. Ur definetly gonna have to remove the Battery and Charcoal cannister to get the front off. Theres 4-5 bolts on each side of the frtont end. Gotta look around. Then on ur front by the hood latch u gotta remove the headlight assembly bolt, its by that greyish fiberglass thing holding ur headlights, after that remove the plastic strips holding ur GFX and it should come out. Took me 30 mintues to do and it was my first time. Just gotta look around best advice i can give u good luck.
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Old Mar 8, 2002 | 08:31 PM
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thnx for the reply, ill try and take it off firt thing tomorrow morning sinse i gotta work tonight in half an hour.
thnx anyways, good luck with your front end .
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Old Mar 8, 2002 | 09:20 PM
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thanx if i remember right if u want to take the whole assembly apart includeing the GFX its gonna be about 30 bolts all together so take ur time and have fun. Dont stress it. Good luck.
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