This is my pick-up. I took it in to have the bearings in the rear end replaced and the guys there didn't put it in park when they got out, the truck rolled down and there was a fender bender... Due to the custom paint it took the insurance company months to get the repairs done. Anyway, the body shop replaced the front bumper and the chrome on the new one is as wavy as the Atlantic Ocean. Apparently it is just some made in Taiwan rip-off reproduction bumper.

I was wondering if anyone can refer me to a place where I can buy a nice, original style front bumper. I don't mind a reproduction as long as the quality is as good as the original was.

Thank You Very Much

 

I assume you have told the body shop and insurance co. everything is okay ? If not them why are you not making them fix it ?

 

I have never been happy with the chrome on aftermarket bumpers for cars or trucks.
I prefer to get them straightened and re chromed.
Then you have a shot at controlling the quality.

 

Were the front fenders repainted also? The hood doesn't look like it matches very well in the pics.

Find a decent original bumper and have it re-chromed. On the ins. dime of course. The truck needs to be like it was before the accident? You can interchange accident with stupid!

 

Quality chrome plating is very expensive! I just had the front bumper on my '73 straightened and replated. It wasn't really damaged, most of the repair was to fix problems from when it was stamped. The edge was sharp and rough and where the license plate goes was wavy.
The repairs were $175 and the rechroming was $850 for a total of $1,025.00

 

Yikes
I think I'll go kiss my chromer.
Although I will say you took your stuff to the finest chrome company (in my understanding) in the country.

 

Not to hijack this thread but that was just the bumper. Total for everything was $2,702.00. It still hurts a little when I sit .
In all seriousness, they did a fantastic job and it was well worth it.

 

That's an old pic. The hood was a shade or two different than the rest when I bought it. A tree limb fell on the original hood so they had to repaint another hood. It's not just orange, it's a House of Kolor paint with lavender pearl chips and when a panel is damaged it's not very easy to match it, or at least that's what the PO said when we bought it. It's like a 8 stage paint job, multi layers of clear with the lavender pearl, over the HoK paint, over a layer of clear, over a white base... Or something like that. And it's not a new paint job so I'm sure it's faded a bit too. Took forever to find a shop that would even do the job of fixing it because of the custom paint.

The fender was damaged in the "accident" so the body shop did blend the paint from the fender to the hood and from the fender into the door so it matches better than it did in that pic.

And no, I didn't sign off on the truck yet. It's still at the body shop. I told the insurance company I would accept the truck as is but the bumper looks like crrrrap and I will HAVE to replace it (since the body shop said this was the only new replacement bumper they could locate) but they need to give the the money for an equal quality bumper as to what it had before the accident.

This bumper is terrible. I should have taken a pic... I'm talking at least a hundred ripples from one side to the other on the top surface and all the edges are sharp and not even grinded smooth... I swear it has to be one of those made in Taiwan repro bumpers.

I was just hoping there was a place that sold decent quality repro bumpers. I guess I'll just have to call some yards and get an old straight one and send it off to be chromed.

 

Dennis Carpenter is probably the most reliable source for a quality re pop bumper.

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