I went through this kind of B.S. with my '89 Olds. It was considered a base 88 which in that model year is a small car. Most of the older cars that are the correct body style be interchangeable, just make sure it's a wagon. For some reason the were a few inches wider than the sedans. In the end I found it easier to just buy a Custom Cruiser woody wagon with a busted frame and gut it.
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Originally posted by theonlyjohnson View Post[ATTACH=CONFIG]9089[/ATTACH] This is the piece
If you want your car to be completely as it left the coach builder I don't have any advice besides to keep looking at junkyard B-body wagons until you luck into a good one [don't hold your breath while you wait]. But if you're willing to make a few changes what you can do is customize the bumper so it fits better against the car. The reason for the filler panels & the reason why they're usually all cracked up [besides the fact that they're plastic] is because the car was designed to let the bumper move inward during small fender benders in parking lots. If you drill out your bumper shocks [illegal in some places] and take the fillers out you'll see the bumper will slide all the way in so it's against the car's body. This will look better, without any cutting & welding. Or if you're willing to put more work into it you can cut up the bumper and weld it back together so that it sits flush against the car, or you could make your own bumper mount [ditch the shocks] and then weld a small strip of metal on the fender to fill in the last remaining gap. Some states will fail you if you don't have shocks.
My flatmates went though this with both their olds wagons:
I don't remember if this picture was taken with drilled out shocks, or with custom mounts but it looks a lot better and the tiny gap that remains can be filled in by welding a small piece of metal to the fender. You can buy sections of aluminum I-beam online to use as your bumper support bracket and also have a decent weight savings over those heavy bumper shocks.
Originally posted by Shelby View PostI went through this kind of B.S. with my '89 Olds. It was considered a base 88 which in that model year is a small car. Most of the older cars that are the correct body style be interchangeable, just make sure it's a wagon. For some reason the were a few inches wider than the sedans. In the end I found it easier to just buy a Custom Cruiser woody wagon with a busted frame and gut it.
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