You've given it a lot more thought than I had.
Someone around here was driving around without a front bumper on the blue car
here:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette/fleet_top_view.jpg
which can be all well and good until someone says, your insurance doesn't cover
you because you altered your car.
I don't imagine that bumper does much, given it's lack of height and how
fragile it is, but that's not the point, is it?
How about some sort of quick detachable bumper?
> From: John Caffrey <jdc6@Lehigh.EDU>
> Hi Robert,
> I have also been thinking about a forward tilting bonnet using box
> Spridget parts. I believe the steel fenders and hood would make a more
> substantial bonnet for a street car than fiberglass, and most of the
> fiberglass bonnets I've seen have flares anyway. I am not far enough
> along with my 67 to start on this yet, but my hangup is that I need to
> keep a front bumper for PA state inspection, and I don't want to have to
> remove the bumper to tilt the bonnet. One idea is cutting the fenders at
> the top or bottom of the grille opening and welding on flanges and
> hinges so just the upper fenders tilt, like a late model Spitfire. It
> would be subtle and tasteful if well executed IMO. These cars have been
> around for so long that it seems like everything I've thought about has
> been done before. Maybe there is a better way to keep the bumpers
> attached to a one piece bonnet and then have the mountings slip into
> custom frame brackets as it closes? Do Bugeye owners just elininate the
> bumpers when they convert to forward tilting bonnets?
> John
> Fogelsville, PA
>
> Robert Duquette wrote:
>
> >Yeah, I know, something that small shouldn't be allowed out alone.
> >
> >Has anyone ever put together a forward tilting bonnet on a non-bugeye using
>their existing fenders valence and bonnet?
> >
> >Just curious. I know there's fibreglass out there that would perhaps be
>better suited, but, 'we tight'. And besides, this is primarily a mind
>exercise. I usually need to be planning 'something'.
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