Painted Chrome Bumpers: Mean or Naff?

[fred]

Give them a good rubbing with chrome cleaner, just to see if you can make them somewhat better
Auto Sol or something similar, it does make a difference

[adam73bgt]

Jun 18, 2014 20:18:01 GMT gn3dr said:

You've seen this one too retrorides.proboards.com/post/1870931/thread
I assume as you posted in the thread

Huh yeah, totally forgotten about that to be honest I just wanted to see a few more pics of cars in general with painted chrome bumpers as I'm not sure what style uses it most. I think its one of the american tuning styles

[bmcnut]

Orange, like a BRMGBGT, or black carbonfibre effect vinyl?

[1eighteen]

That brushed steel looks good. Now you got me thinking about my car !!

[sowen]

[little feat]

Keep the chrome .
Jaysus , it'll hardly break the budget if you're properly doing all those body mods plus paint........
www.mgpartsuk.co.uk/store/index.php?route=product/product&path=330_274&product_id=6729

[steveo3002]

don't think it works for me really , either looks like a 1990s cal look bug or its what people do on cheap bangers because the chrome is shot

[adam73bgt]

Jun 19, 2014 7:43:42 GMT little feat said:

Keep the chrome .
Jaysus , it'll hardly break the budget if you're properly doing all those body mods plus paint........
www.mgpartsuk.co.uk/store/index.php?route=product/product&path=330_274&product_id=6729

Yes, but the quality is dubious on a lot of the new chrome bumpers, plus I'd like to do something a bit different really, but a cheap set of new bumpers could always be a solution for a couple years

Jun 19, 2014 7:48:23 GMT steveo3002 said:

don't think it works for me really , either looks like a 1990s cal look bug or its what people do on cheap bangers because the chrome is shot

Mm I see what you're saying, that had been my concern a little, but I really wanted to see if anyone had any examples of it done right, rather like sowen 's cool P6 up there

[sowen]

Black bumpers need to be done as part of a package of paint mods. On my P6 I had all the external chrome parts blasted and painted, and left the stainless as original. With the black wheels and other black parts it all pulls together.

[baggabones]

Take a look at the awesome volvo amazon in this months retro cars magazine for some serios inspiration!

[Joe T]

I think painted chrome bumpers look naff. Much prefer the chrome. For example,

This looks better:



than this:

[adam73bgt]

Hmmm would it be wrong to say I quite like both of those Pontiacs?...

Jun 19, 2014 9:52:08 GMT sowen said:

Black bumpers need to be done as part of a package of paint mods. On my P6 I had all the external chrome parts blasted and painted, and left the stainless as original. With the black wheels and other black parts it all pulls together.

I think you've nailed it there, its all about the details like with your P6 and also with this Jag I just happened to come across



I have a feeling I would possibly be able to get away with having brushed bumpers without changing other bits, though I may just give the lot of the chrome a real good buff up and see what I've got to work with, it won't do much for the rust on the bumpers though...

[Anglia68]

When I built my old Anglia van I smoothed out the front bumper by welding the bolts on from behind and then shortened the mounting brackets so the bumper sat closer to the body and then sprayed it with silver smoothrite which I think worked quite well and was quite a subtle mod but I think would work equally well on a B.

[retrowrongun]

Why not hydrodip them ?

[thorne]

How easy is it to paint chrome? Anything out of the ordinary you need to do prep-wise? Always fancied recreating my dads old Granada 2.8i which had factory black bumpers, window surrounds etc, in my opinion it did make it look a bit meaner than your average grandad-mobile

[Rusted Pistons]

All the chrome is painted on my Cav - looks cool I reckons

[Rich606]

Jun 18, 2014 14:48:21 GMT ratchart said:

Body coloured bumpers always remind me of 80s Cal Look VWs (which you will have to decide is a good or bad thing). Probably works best on a brighter colour.

This. Repaint the bumpers and the body in turquoise or pink or peach, fit a set of nice big 3-spokes, splatter-paint your rocker cover/everything else in the engine bay, voila, '90s Street Machine-style BGT

[joem83]

Can look good, but I do like chrome.

GMG F150:

[onefiftyay]

Here is my first attempt at chrome wrapping my Midget bumper. This is the good side . Because of that sharp radius on the end I got a few wrinkles.

[Deleted]

B's have a lot of chrome on them so the bumpers being not chrome would possibly look a bit odd unless you just remove them completely