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| | | | Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 87 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 87 | anybody know if a rear bumper can be fitted to the front on a 49 even if not a direct swap
will it look ok?
(good reason for this and cant check myself)
thanks | | | | | Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 358 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 358 | I have a front bumper on the rear! The front bumper follows the contour of the front pan. I dont think the flatter rear bumper would look right... [img] http://www.whizzerick.com/flasher_rear.JPG[/img] | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | I need a rear buumper for mine,, that is a neat idea.........Fred
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 87 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 87 | thanks for reply joker, heres the thing my truck may well also have a front bumper on rear from what your saying as my rear bumper seems way to ,,round,, and certainly not flatter wich is why i was thinking they could be the same,
but i was offered a good rear bumper and was going to fit to front now it seems i may allready have 2 front bumpers so this one iv been offered may look better on back as i allways thought my rear bumper looked way to curved anybody got a picture to compare front/rear?? | | | | | Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 87 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 87 | the bumper in the pictuire posted is that a rear or front on a rear? | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 | Aren't they the same bumper? Or is that just Art Deco and earlier?
It seems to me that they used the same bumper on both ends to save money. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 422 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 422 | | | | | | Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 87 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 87 | still hard to tell from the pics .they do advertise front and rear bumpers as though they are different but i dont know what the diffference is and i have no trucks locally to compare (england) | | | | | Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,557 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,557 | Front and rear bumpers are different.
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,549 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,549 | Do you have the front splash/gravel pan, that fits between the front bumper, & grille. If so, as mentioned earlier, the front bumper, has more of a curve to it, & follows the curve of the splash/gravel pan. I've seen a truck, with a rear bumper, on the front, & it looked "Funky". | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,953 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,953 | I have a front bumper on the rear of my 49 and it is more curved than the original rear bumper, in fact to the point where it makes putting my license plate (in the stock position) difficult as it hits. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 439 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 439 | What kind of brakets did you (wizzer & olblu), use to put the front bumper on the rear? If you did not put them on yourselves, do ya have a picture?
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