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Ugly? Black Bumpers

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Subject: Ugly? Black Bumpers
From: Conn <conn@wctc.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:30:09 -0500

KEVIN EDDINS wrote:

> Rear chrome mounts perfectly.  I was going to do the same, but after I
> saw how much more the ugly rubber one (with a lot of aluminum
> underneath) would protect the expensive paint job on my '79 spit, I
> decided to sacrifice the aesthetics.

I realize that I'm a newbie here, but I just thought I'd share this
observation.

I see so many references to "Ugly Black Bumpers" on '79 & '80 Spits and it
struck me as sort of odd, in as much as I specificly looked for an '80
*because* it had no chrome. To me the black bumpers make the car look sleeker
and more modern. I seem to be in a minority, perhaps unique. Does anybody else
*like* the black ones?

I have to say that the first car I bought for myself was an '80 Spitfire that I
got in late '81, and perhaps that bit of nostalga sways my sentiments.

BTW, I just got done spraying Bumper Black on my "new" Spit this morning.




-- Conn  (conn@wctc.net)

History shows again and again,
how nature points out the folly of man.



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