[Spits] Chrome to Rubber bumpers happened....?

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In a message dated 7/5/2008 1:20:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mike.vasquez at gmail.com writes:

For some  reason, I had always thought '75 was the last year of chrome
bumpers, then  somewhere I thought it was '78, but then I saw a '78
that apeared to have  bumper, and got all confused.  Can someone
authoritatively straighten  me out?


==AM==
1974 was the first model year to have anything of substance, in the form of  
the rear frame extensions and the almost cone-shaped rubber overriders front 
and  rear. In 1975, they went to the big, more squared-off rubber overriders 
front  and rear, and the rear bumper also got that big overlay in the center  
section.
 
The "all-rubber" front and rear bumpers came in for mid-1979 and continued  
through the end of sales of the Spitfire in the US.  

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