jamesinc
Hi all,
I'm after two bits:
* the front rubber trim for a 240 commando bumper
* The rear rubber skirting, including the passenger side metal bracketry that goes on the corner (bolt accessed from inside the boot). To clarify when I say skirt I mean the rubber trim that sits on top of the bumper at the back.
This is for a 1977 244DL (the kind with the early-style tail section)
Unrelated to this, I am after a hockey stick front driver side for an '81 244, as well as a passenger front quarter panel trim strip. The narrow chrome kind with a thin black rubber line along it. I think it only came on 79/80/81 models.
Angus242164
I've got all of these items, but how to get them to you?
Slowbrick
Dont be cheap and buy mine.
jamesinc
Angus I'll double check the car tonight, but maybe you could just stick the trim in a tube and send it up? I should get the rubber skirting from RYAN
Angus242164
I just realised, the rear rubber is rigid, but only because of a steel piece fitted inside it. I think that piece can be separated from the rubber. If you don't need the steel bit, it can simply be rolled up and put in a satchel. If anything, the trim strip for the front guard might be harder as it would need a fairly long tube.
I do have a big and very heavy duty cardboard tube here that I received some chromoly tube in a while ago, it could probably all go into that, and as a bonus you can make it into an orange gun when you're finished.
jamesinc
I could also send you an empty tube if you needed one, I have a big one I got from DVS a while back.
A_Volvo_Driver
Silly question, what are commando bumpers, and how are they different to regular ones? I did a google search, and to my untrained eye, look the same?
Angus242164
The "commando bumpers" are a term the yanks came up with for the '74-'80 100/200 series bumpers, that are made out of heavy duty aluminium with rubber on them. They were mounted on brackets with big rubber cushions to allow them to be pushed in and return to their original position undamaged, in collisions up to 5MPH, in line with US DOT regulations of the time.
Most other Euro and Jap cars in the '70's gained huge bumpers not seen in other markets for the same reason.
From '81 onwards they had a lighter aluminium bumper support mounted on gas filled shock absorbing brackets, with a full plastic covering, which is what your car has.
Ex850R
My 245 had them , i wanted to mirror finish polish them at one point!
jamesinc
I'm trying to decide whether to polish or powdercoat
Ex850R
You could anodize em too!
jamesinc
What if I were to cathodize them
Ex850R
Ye can dize what ye want really!
What colour then?
