Itinerant Air-Cooled

I enjoyed peeling back the layers of my rear bumper, getting it in decent shape and repainting it that I decided to do the same to my front bumper.

It looked like it was just the original bumper with 10 layers of repaint and repaint over the top of it, but after weeks of sanding, scraping and chemicals, I finally ordered a new one.

it's just so mishapen and built up with bondo and whateverelse that I just can't justify spending another minute on it.


the more I scrape, the deeper I realize it's time for this part to retire.

getting down to this layer on this end of the bumper was the last straw for me:

Bondo bumper

airkooledchris wrote: the more I scrape, the deeper I realize it's time for this part to retire.

If it is a good German bumper, someone will want it.
Colin

If it was good, ID want it.

BustedBus makes those decisions so much easier to make.

airkooledchris wrote:If it was good, ID want it.

BustedBus makes those decisions so much easier to make.

Save it. Sell it to someone who wants it and is not all aesthetic about it. Somebody might want the bumper to act as a bumper and could care less that it is overworked. I kept my caved in rear bumper on the Road Warrior for 26 years, well-polished and waxed right over the dent in the middle, because I could stand on it anywhere without it twisting like the cheap Rocky Mountain Motorworks bumper I bought in 2001, the one that had a hard time fitting? that didn't wrap around the rear of the car like the original did? that bent down if you stood on the corner of it? yeah that one.

Colin

Yeah the hell with what's hiding inside. Bumpers get mangled anyway, I've learned to live with tweaked-but-solid old German stuff.