WTB Pre-73 Front Bumper Brackets

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Looking for the elusive “spring clips,” if anyone has them for sale or knows of a source.

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Or if someone has some in their horde they’d be willing to loan me so I can make them, I’d be happy to pay shipping & eternal gratitude.
 
Hello JayWltrs,
My car is in the process of being painted and the brackets are just sitting in my shed. You are welcomed to borrow them so you can make your own. PM me for details.
Victor
 
The 74 frame has a bend in it as it is thicker, Peters brackets accommodated this. I saw a set at Carl Nelsons, maybe give him a call.
 
grnder95 said:
Hello JayWltrs,
My car is in the process of being painted and the brackets are just sitting in my shed. You are welcomed to borrow them so you can make your own. PM me for details.
Victor
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Thanks, Victor. I’m going to call Carl & will let you know. I was supposed to be in Houston later this month, but everything is getting canceled!
 
If someone could post a photo of these brackets after tracking them down, it would be a good addition to the compendium of Coupe knowledge.
 
Alice Couper said:
If someone could post a photo of these brackets after tracking them down, it would be a good addition to the compendium of Coupe knowledge.
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Peter said the conversion brackets they had were made by someone in Canada, who no longer makes them. I’ve never seen them. I assumed they looked like the 2002 or E21 conversion kits from Blunttech, but don’t know. Someone mentioned @pamp in an older thread.
 
Maybe we could get a group buy together for 74 bumper adapters. Id be down for a set. BluntTech sells complete stainless e9 bumpers for $1299. While they offer for adapters for big bumper 02s they don't offer same for e9.
 
JMinNJ said:
Maybe we could get a group buy together for 74 bumper adapters. Id be down for a set. BluntTech sells complete stainless e9 bumpers for $1299. While they offer for adapters for big bumper 02s they don't offer same for e9.
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Does anyone have an example? They don't sound that complicated. How hard would it be to get them reproduced?
 
My early brackets are free and in the garage. I can snap some pics of the legacy bracket on and off the car if it helps drive the discussion. Just let me know. This is with the understanding that the 74 is different.
 
JayWltrs said:
Okay. I believe these are the tube mounts from pamp (who left his photobucket link in an old thread) and are the pics w dead links in his bumper threads.

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I don't know what these are. Rears?

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A different take from this thread: https://s552.photobucket.com/user/a...ehab/Bumper Pics/100_1028.jpg.html?sort=3&o=7

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Thanks for finding the thread. When looking at the pics I wondered were the long bolt from the overrider would come through. Then I checked the photo bucket thread and saw this:

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So the long bolt comes in to the middle of the pipe ands it’s attaching bolt is tighten via the long ratchet extensions. The “adapters” are attached to the bumper/overriders first before sliding them into place. Not complicated.

The rears are much easier if they are anything like the e3 I swapped bumpers on last year. All you need is the stock factory brackets. Then drill out the holes that are below the rear lights and you bolt them right up. You’ll have three big holes where the bumper shocks were but they’ll be hidden by the new bumper.

Here’s a photo of the area to be drilled from my 74, one on each side:

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I gotta clean my trunk floor. Outta sight outta mind.
 
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From emails with Allen Pinchin (pamp) ([email protected]) February 2013....

Have a question about your bumper tubes. When inserted into the outer tube does your tube come to rest against something at the end or are they secured with a bolt through both tubes? Or are they just floating leaving the bumper to be only anchored by the bumper end bolts through the fenders? Looking for maximum strength in case of contact (aaaahh!!).
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Well, no. If you examine the mounting of the DOT bumper you will see that the shock was mounted quite solid to the frame....by a nut to the bottom of the frame, Just behind the 'rad or core. I do not pre-drill this hole. The cars vary quite a bit....air dam or no? Mark the tube through the frame rail once you are happy with alignment of your bumper. Once you get the position of where you like to be, you will need to drill straight though the tube as original...an approximately 1/2 inch hole in the tube and you reuse the bolt from the original shock. Sure, you need to assemble and disassemble twice. But, you will make it correct to your own eye.

Hope that made sense.....assemble the tubes to the bumper, slide into place (there are also two small cap screws that put a squeeze on the plastic sleeve insert(s) in the frame rail, you need to pull your headlight buckets to access those...loosen them before you slide the bumper in) Again, once happy with the line up, mark the tubes through the frame rail hole just behind the core support. Mark where you will drill the quarter panels for a small bolt for the bumper ends .Pull the bumper assembly and disassemble. Through drill the tube in a drill press as to fit the original large frame bolts. Drill the quarter panel holes. Re-assemble, install and bolt her up solid.

These things are very easy to make and a couple of guys have done just that, made their own. No worries from me, nothing proprietary. The pipe size is metric and the only thing hard to source.
 
Alice Couper said:
Great info, thanks. Does anyone know the diameter of the metric pipe, and where to procure it?
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If you still have the 74 bumpers on your car. When you pull them off, just measure the diameter of the bumper tubes. I don't have handy at the moment or would but that is the exact side you are looking to replicate. I'll try to dig one up though and post a measurement soon.
 
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