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Jun 23, 2020 10:09:03 GMT
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You know, the time in the 80s and 90s when bumpers and arches were grained plastic on sporty hatches? I've never really been a fan of colour coded bumpers on hot hatches. For some reason the grained plastic trim always appealed to me more. A few examples. I prefered the look of the Nova SR and SRi to the GTE and GSi even though they were less powerful. SR
vs GTE
Phase 2 Renault 5 gt turbo with the body coloured bumpers and arches never did anything for me.
The phase 1 though.
AX GT with the grey bumpers looks more purposeful
than the versions with colour coded panels.
Is it just me that wants to go back to the days when grained grey plastic ruled the day?
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Jun 23, 2020 10:33:42 GMT
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melle
South West
It'll come out in the wash.
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Jun 23, 2020 11:11:51 GMT
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The good old days when bumpers were still bumpers.
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www.saabv4.com'70 Saab 96 V4 "The Devil's Own V4" '77 Saab 95 V4 van conversion project '88 Saab 900i 8V
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Jun 23, 2020 11:29:03 GMT
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The good old days when bumpers were still bumpers. With a nice big steel girder behind them.
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melle
South West
It'll come out in the wash.
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Jun 23, 2020 11:34:31 GMT
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With a nice big steel girder behind them. Exactly! That's how I like them.
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www.saabv4.com'70 Saab 96 V4 "The Devil's Own V4" '77 Saab 95 V4 van conversion project '88 Saab 900i 8V
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Jun 23, 2020 14:35:29 GMT
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With a nice big steel girder behind them. Exactly! That's how I like them. My mk2 polo has a couple of kg of steel behind the plastic. The mk3s had nothing but fresh air. I know which I preferred.
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tomti
Part of things
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Jun 23, 2020 17:16:43 GMT
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Love my black bumpers. Everyone keeps asking me when I’m putting colour coded ones on. Not happening!
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Jun 23, 2020 17:26:21 GMT
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I can recall a time when plastic wasn't involved in the manufacture of bumpers too Things just looked so much better
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cjhillman
Posted a lot
1979 Capri (Rolling Project) 1985 Escort mk3 (Daily)
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Jun 23, 2020 18:28:57 GMT
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A nice Idea My kinda Pov spec I think this is where most of them went.
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Jun 23, 2020 18:37:28 GMT
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I remember how easy it was to make my mk2 XR2 look good, given a wash and a polish and then "back to black" the bumpers, spoilers, grill and skirts...
As it had so much black plastic, it took less time than polishing a whole car, and the red paint contrasted the black to make it look better than the all-red colour coded one I'd learned to drive in a few years earlier
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Jun 23, 2020 18:57:10 GMT
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Ford Sierra both the 2.0iS and the XR4i both well suited to the black plastic bumper look!
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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ferny
Club Retro Rides Member
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Jun 23, 2020 19:23:52 GMT
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"Oh wow, that car will be a fast one! Its bumpers are the same colour as the car!"
My internal monologue as a kid.
"Ahh, an M/AMG/ST/S. Must be a poverty spec engine."
My assumption these days.
Possibly not of interest. My van (2005, 300k mile Peugeot Expert) has poverty bumpers. I put linseed oil on them and two years later people were remarking that I must have put new ones on due to their blackness.
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Jun 23, 2020 21:06:49 GMT
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phase 1 5GTT all the way... clipper kitted mk1 golfs just don't cut the mustard either , has to be black bumpers for me.
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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dacca
Part of things
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Jun 23, 2020 22:04:17 GMT
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The satisfaction of bringing them back to life with a heat gun was always good
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Jun 23, 2020 22:31:41 GMT
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Totally agree. Take the P38... She's a big lass, down there, is the '38, as I well know, with a front bumper cluttering up the narrow corridor between kitchen and downstairs loo. Colour coding only accentuates just how big. That's better, looks far more svelte up front now.
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Jun 23, 2020 23:10:07 GMT
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Possibly not of interest. My van (2005, 300k mile Peugeot Expert) has poverty bumpers. I put linseed oil on them and two years later people were remarking that I must have put new ones on due to their blackness. In one of the rare instances of fading plastic being preferred - unlike my previous Ducato, white with black bumpers, my current van is silver, and with the black plastic having now faded, I've ended up with roughly body coloured bumpers
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Yep a drop of linseed oil works wonders
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Fraud owners club member 1999 Jaguar s type 1993 ford escort
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markbognor
South East
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I like both looks, I mixed it up with the red Micra. I think, as shown in the Op it became a mark of the more powerful/more exclusive version. I also found it opened up colour combinations - I don't think the black bumpered version of my Micra would have worked as well with the gold wheels and stripes, but once the body colour (Super-S, those performance pretentions), bumpers were on it worked. I'm off to find pics of cool series 1 Renault 5's, pretty sure these are considered the grandaddy of integrated plastic bumpers....
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I remember how easy it was to make my mk2 XR2 look good, given a wash and a polish and then "back to black" the bumpers, spoilers, grill and skirts... As it had so much black plastic, it took less time than polishing a whole car, and the red paint contrasted the black to make it look better than the all-red colour coded one I'd learned to drive in a few years earlier Same with my 205 gti. I used to used black shoe polish on the tyres after doing the back to black on the bumpers.
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Bit of both on this one.
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