Someone asked if there were any issues with removing the
bumperettes on the later car.
The front bumperettes are a cake walk. You don't even need to
remove the bumper, although you are less likely to scratch the chrome if
you do.
On the rear, the bumperette brackets also are used as spacers
between the bumper and the frame. When you remove the bumperettes, the
bumper will end up being closer to the body by about 1/2". On the
quarter panels, the mounting point is slotted, so you can slide the
bumper forward 1/2" no sweat. The only gotcha is that the rear mount
points use studs, which are not threaded for their entire length. When
you attempt to tighten down the nuts on the rear mounts, you run out of
thread before the nut seats. The solution is to remove the studs, and
use appropriate sized bolts instead (the head of the new bolt ends up
inside the rear valence, and the bolt threads into the bumper.)
You MUST remove the rear bumper (two bolts, two nuts) to remove
the rear bumperettes (which are attached using 4 bolts each), remove the
studs, rehang the bumper using the two original bolts, and two new
bolts. There are no visible mounting holes in the rear bumper when you
are finished, so you need not resort to chrome headed bolts, etc.
Cheers,
Vance
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