A couple of years ago I came across a company that made stamped aluminum front bumper/nose piece to replace the urethane factory one.My computer crashed and I lost the web site.Has anyone else heard of this or came across the website?

 

never heard of them, sounds interesting though.

 

I think you may have been mistaken, I'm pretty sure no such thing has been made for production cars. Wouldn't make much sense. Very easy to damage and expensive to make.

 

Thought the whole idea with the soft rubber bumper was to reduce cost of repair at slow accidents at city speeds.

btw a interesting crash test with a 89 firebird

 

I'm thinking you may have saw the impact bumper used on 82-4 birds.

 

That was what I thought of when I first read this, but he seemed rather certain it was a bumper/nose piece.

Does that 82-84 piece fit the later cars?

 

I have a 82-84 aluminum impact bumper $200 shipped to you FED EX-----yes it will fit might have to change the eggcrate cushion to fit your car --but thats OK just use your old cushion---let me know on that bumper if you are interested----weighs 18.1 pounds the STEEL ones weigh 33+ pounds--FED 387