Re: bumper sink in

by bigredlaguna on Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:01 pm

Since you are keeping your car now, corey, did you ever get this figured out?

by BlackChevelleSS on Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:28 am

we just did it on the SS, the bumper is sagging so we are gonna have to figure something out to get the top to come in towards the grille.

by coreys73chevelle on Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:12 pm

bigredlaguna wrote:Since you are keeping your car now, corey, did you ever get this figured out?

not yet havent been doing much work to it between school and work and hunting, but ill do this sometime before it is painted

by The Dude on Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:27 pm

Anyone ever do this on a post-73 car? I got the 73 bumper (green car posted at the beginning) right next to my 76 & the mounting is WAY different. I could just mount the 73 bumper & shocks onto my 76 frame for now.... Rolling Eyes

but I do eventually want to figure this one out for later models too. I took the front bumper & hood off last night & swear the car sits 2" higher! From the looks of it, I might have to do some welding? Dan, I'll probably bring it down so you can see what I'm talking about. How's tomorrow sound? LOL

If anyone has done it successfully..... please... feel free to do a write up with pics... seriously. Either that or I might end up being the guinea pig on this one.

by Cdub74 on Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:00 pm

what kind of front end is that? I want to put that bumper on mine, it looks sweet!

by The Dude on Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:11 pm

Stock 1973 Chevelle front end. From the looks of your avatar, you have a Laguna. Surely someone on here would be willing to trade. I almost would just to have a Laguna front for back up. Basically to answer your question though, all Chevelles came with the chrome bumpers except Laguna models which had the urethane front end like yours. There have been a few different methods for sinking in the bumper, check out the sticky in the body section.

by BlackChevelleSS on Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:03 pm

BlackChevelleSS wrote:well we got the bumper sunk in without any fabrication we just used the factory brackets and didnt even mess with the shocks and it turned out great. I dont have pics of all what we did but I could type it up if anyones interested.

I miss that car

by The Dude on Wed Nov 03, 2010 7:26 am

The bad part is that it's just down the road in Claremore & the current owner is a member here. He signs in & looks around, but has never posted or kept us up to date on it. Sad

by coreys73chevelle on Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:35 pm

my god that looks good even today. sunken bumper malibus are king

by Cdub74 on Tue Nov 09, 2010 1:26 pm

Rago wrote:Stock 1973 Chevelle front end. From the looks of your avatar, you have a Laguna. Surely someone on here would be willing to trade. I almost would just to have a Laguna front for back up. Basically to answer your question though, all Chevelles came with the chrome bumpers except Laguna models which had the urethane front end like yours. There have been a few different methods for sinking in the bumper, check out the sticky in the body section.

-Thanks Rago, my avatar pic is my car. Im going to keep the stock front end after a swap it out. But if anyone has a front end with a chome bumper, in great shape let me know!!!