C'mon guys... those rubber bumper, padded dash cars were US export only.
Gerard
At 7:24 PM +0000 10/29/04, <bushwacker4@zoomtown.com> wrote:
>The US market RB cars have frame rails that run across the inner
>fenders out to the front of the grille opening that hold the front
>bumper on. Converting one to the earlier grille is a real pain
>because of them. You have to carefully cut them off in order to fit
>the Sprite grille that shows in the pictures. The front turn signals
>are not RB nor is the dash (mid-years steel spridget). The rear of
>the car has the curve under the tail lights that the RB cars did
>not. Are the home market cars the same??? OR, does Frank have a
>relative in the UK and this car is a 2nd cousin twice removed to
>Pieces?
>
>Kent
>1960 Bugeye
>
>Very interesting but I wonder why he did this on a 1977 shell, unless
>the UK cars didn't carry the extra poundage.
>
>Note the absence of bumpers. What extra poundage? Without bumpers,
>you might as well start with an RB, since you are discarding the
>drivetrain anyway.
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