While I have an '80 with black bumpers, I have mixed emotions about the
plastic bumpers.
On the one hand, I like the extra protection that they give my car
(mostly from small things in parking lots and going slow down the
road). On the other hand, they stick out so far in the front and back
that they give a sort of goiter effect (or it looks like it has a fat
lip!).
I personally think that the small chrome bumpers make the Spit look more
like a sports car, the black plastic ones make it look slower. I've
considered a change to chrome myself but want to stay more or less
original.
I have noted that LBC lovers tend to look down on the black plastic
bumpers as being indicative of a "smog controlled" car which therefore
has less power and zip and is less desirable to own / drive.
I personally am having a hell of a good time driving my Little Metal
Girlfriend and she looks beautiful to me.
Conn wrote:
>
> 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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