Half tube bumpers

[racydave]

Half tube bumpers done on the front. Always looking for an excuse to weld. Cost a can of primer, and paint. Need to remove gas tank for the rear half tube, will tackle in a couple weeks when the body work on the rear is begun.http://flickr.com/photos/wwwfiatspidercom/?saved=1
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[rlux4]

Interesting, and unique.
Do you plan to plug or put bullet ends on the tubes?
Ron

[rlux4]

Oops. Double post.
Ron

[manoa matt]

How about a bullet type light on each end as turn signals

[racydave]

HA, Matt, I thought of the same thing. I will do something, and round? I have a set of early bumpers that need re-plating, and wanted something in the interium. I gotta pull the gas tank to remove the rear bumper shocks, so we are gonna start the bodywork in a few weeks. Cant decide on a color.

[manoa matt]

I was thinking about something similar the other week while looking at my big tube bumpers. I thought about making a light weight version out of exhaust tubing. Same exact design as origonal but much lighter. I'd probably go with a silver powder coating, or polished ceramic instead of chrome. You could get stainless exhasut tubing and polish it, but will need someone to weld it.

Matt

[rlux4]

Pintpower put those chrome bullet lic. lights in his bumper when he cut the center section out of his lower one. There's a good picture of it in SoCal Mark's pictures of the "So Cal Event, Sat. Feb. 9th" thread, in Fiat Spider Events. The red car in his third picture down.
Ron

[manoa matt]

Napa has stainless steel 2" exhaust tubing 10 feet long for $18. Napa # EXH-49184. Two 10' sections should do both bumpers. The rear is easy, just cut to length and weld the brackets. The front will have to be taken to a good exhaust shop that can replicate the curve of the front bumper, without imparting too many tool marks into the stainless.

$36 for parts and some shop time and you just lost a hunderd pounds without looking like it. Why isn't someone already making these? Lightweight, stainless, origonal look, these things would fly off the shelf.

Matt

[So Cal Mark]

is it an illusion, or does the bumper curve up on the ends?

[racydave]

Actually, it is turned up the slightest bit. I was hoping that caping the ends might lessen the effect.