[spectramitch]

Does anyone have any input on mounting a Fiberglass front bumper? Anyone have one for sale? I was going to put a 68 chrome bumper on my 69 Lemans but the bumper is too nice for my car which is a race car.

[Keith Seymore]

I've got a glass bumper on my Chevelle.

Not totally the same scenario, in that my steel bumper was 60 lbs, and there was another 60 lbs of structure in behind it, so the savings in weight of the bumper itself but also the mounting structure was significant (It's held on with 1/4" by 2" aluminum flat stock now).

You will have the opportunity to decide what color you want (for me: argent vs chrome plated). You could also do yours body colored, which might be cool (not an option for me).

Yours will be a pretty tight fit to the front end. Depending on the supplier the glass as received will probably fit pretty crappy and will probably take some tuning to get it to match your specific car. VFN makes good stuff; my parts are only available through US Body Source, the quality of which is kind of marginal.

One other consideration: you will no longer have any crash protection on the front end. My bumpers extend out past the sides of the car so once every five years or so I hook them on something and tear the end off.

K

[Keith Seymore]

Example of a chromed fiberglass front bumper:

[spectramitch]

Wow Keith you Chevelle looks awesome. Im from warren Mi where do you run your car at? I have thought over the Crash protection loss going to fiberglass. I'm not taking this thing to the Demolition Derby quite yet lol

[Keith Seymore]

Thank you; I've been racing this car around here for 42 years. Started my career at Lapeer "International" Dragway in 1978 and run Milan, Martin and a lot of Norwalk.

I've been running with the NMCA for the past 25 years or so https://www.nmcadigital.com/ They start down south (Florida/Georgia) and work their way up through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan before concluding the season in Indy or Memphis. I haven't been running the full schedule as of late but hitting the close ones in Joliet, Norwalk, Martin and Indy.

Complete list of tracks I've raced at shown below.

K