bumber tec on 5o chevy

Just trying to find something to do as i am stuck in the house with broken ribs!! this is what i was at before coming off my bike. the bumbers on my chevy are crap so I am painting them ,and putting the rear lights in the overiders..
for the flashers i am useing clear lens with orange bulbs(new vw ) brake lights I cut from a old red lens. I shaped the lens the way i wanted and used a hot air gun to shape over the overider ,or heat it and slowy push into shape inside the overider.I then mark around the lens and cut out the hole in the overider .
still not finished I glue the lens into the overider then because i am painting them I can use bondo to get them flush ,you can sand the lens with fine paper and when the lot is clearcoated it looks good ...

 

lookin pretty good cookie..fatchuk

 

Good choice of taillight-design, but man you need chrome. Good the hear you are doing fine btw.

 

hi chuk fancy meeting you here.. how you doin did you get my e mail i seem to be having problems with it , i got your e mails ok thanks .. just pulling my hair out not being able to get working on the car..my arm is in a sling and a lot of pain in my back ,tryed to get out of bed last night I was like a crab on its back on the floor trying to get up..!!! all well it could have been worse.

 

Thanks sailor I know I would love chrome . This will do until I can get the money , I was thinking about the new chrome look paint ?

 

Looks great, but I gotta agree with sailor, painted bumpers are gonna look horrible. I'm saying that because I had 'em on my '54.
I honestly think you'd be better off removing the bumpers entirely and saving up your dough. Think about all the extra work you're putting yourself through.

How much will it cost to get 'em rechromed over there anyway?

 

yea nads I know .The bumbers I have are scrap too far gone to rechrome ,I really want good chrome ,these will just have to do untill I can get a good set .it will not be painted this year anyway ,I just want to get her on the road.

 

you may want to look into some of the new coatings that look as good as chrome and can be put over plastic and other materials.


looks great.

 

Neat, glad to hear you made it out ok. Well, relatively speaking.

 

I just noticed your spelling of bumper.

 

Nads Bumper is to fare gone as well.............Its been rammed into since the 80's while listening to dead or alive's You spin my right round like a record baby right round

 

Doh ,its the morphine

 

Hahaha; Dead or Alive...

These last weeks I think I have seen The Human Leagues video for "The Lebanon" like 50 times. I dont know what it is, but I get some kind of sick kick out of it...

 

nice job on the bumper cookie.hope your ribs heal soon mate.whilst you are "resting" you should send an article into the ukk club mag showing how you did the lights.You gonna make it to Hanging dice this year.?all the best,Kol.