New to the list, but old to rubber-bumpered mgs.
My '77 tangled with a mid-seventies Chevy Nova, weeks after I bought it.
Thanks to the superior metal (imagine that!) in my heavy, old roadster,
all I had to repair was the bumper. (The Nova was torn open from stem to
stern)
If anyone has a mangled rubber bumper, don't paint it! Find a local body
shop with a reputation in 1971-73 Mustangs. The bumpers were the same
material. There is a rubbery, bondo-type stuff that patches abrasions
and deep gashes--but most importantly, it stays flexible.
The reason that paint flakes off is that it hardens, like paint should.
The surrounding rubber, though, stays pliable, as it should. And the
paint pops right off.
Finally, I'm in a list that I understand what's going on.
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* Patrick M Clawson *
* Eng. Technologist *
* pclawson@mail.orion.org *
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