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Mrfun2fly
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 Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 10:31 pm Post subject: 1968 Bumpers? |
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I'm considering a 68 Ghia and like the towel bar bumpers but this one has the Euro style.
Can anyone tell me if the Towel Bar bumper bolts and Euro style are the same ? Did the Euro style come factory this way?
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sputnick60
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xzener
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 8:51 am Post subject: Re: 1968 Bumpers? |
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Man... I would LOVE to find someone like you locally. I would trade my towel bars for Euro style in a heartbeat.
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Era Vulgaris
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 11:23 am Post subject: Re: 1968 Bumpers? |
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| xzener wrote: |
| Man... I would LOVE to find someone like you locally. I would trade my towel bars for Euro style in a heartbeat. |
^^^^ this 100%. When I had my 67 I would've traded my towel bars for euro bumpers all day long!!! The euros are so much cleaner looking.
To the OP's question, the euro bumpers were factory items in europe. Mounting points are the same.
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c21darrel
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Mrfun2fly
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 6:58 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Bumpers? |
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| So are you guys saying the Euro Bumpers are factory?? |
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rcooled
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:30 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Bumpers? |
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| Mrfun2fly wrote: |
| So are you guys saying the Euro Bumpers are factory?? |
Yeah...for cars originally sold in markets other than the US.
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Mrfun2fly
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:34 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Bumpers? |
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| xzener wrote: |
| Man... I would LOVE to find someone like you locally. I would trade my towel bars for Euro style in a heartbeat. |
What condition are your bumpers in? |
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kurt912
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:58 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Bumpers? |
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I actually like the Euro bumpers myself. Quicker route to a nose job however... 
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sputnick60
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 8:47 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Bumpers? |
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| In Nicholas's diagram...Euro bumpers wont have the holes (#3, #60) for the side frt/rear towel bars. Easy to add a hole than to get it to go away. |
Good point. The blades in US bumpers all have holes for the towel rail to be bolted in place. Similarly the Euro overriders are shorter and don't have the holes that let the towel rails through.
You'd be talking about swapping a complete set for another, and that would certainly work.
Nicholas
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iowegian 
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 4:34 am Post subject: Re: 1968 Bumpers? |
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| Mrfun2fly wrote: |
| So are you guys saying the Euro Bumpers are factory?? |
And they typically command a considerably higher price (in U.S) than U.S. spec bumpers in comparable condition. |
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John Moxon
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