| The rear of this white car wears the flat-edge, non-wrap around Pre-L bumpers common on 1971-1972 vintage cars. The Pre-L bumpers provide no real protection, and mount with small screws. |
| This is the rear USA L bumper. L bumpers were designed to meet new U.S. crash test standards. The front bumper consists of a steel core laminated with a rubber-like material, attached to a shock mounted inside the body. The shock was a small diameter pipe partially inserted into a barely larger diameter pipe. Upon impact, the small pipe would be forced into the larger one, absorbing some of the crash impact energy. The rear bumper is not rubber clad, just a steel bumper. I believe they were all painted black originally, but at least a few owners have chromed them. Pure L, is Judy DeRyke's car, and Jack describes himself as the ride along mechanic. |
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| On the left, is a very early car and it's rear bumper. |
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| On the right is a Pre-L wrap-around rear bumper, with a flat edge. Not the difference between this one and the yellow car (Coffel) above. |
| This owner chose to paint these Pre-L rear bumpers body color. |
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| 1) Pre-L Flat-edge A) Wrap around B) Non-wrap around 2) Pre-L round edge (also used on Euro L) 3) USA L-model 4) Euro GT5 (two-piece fiberglass, larger than early car bumpers) 5) Amerisports GT5-S 6) Hall Pantera (looks like standard two-piece pre-L but scaled up slightly) |
| DeTomaso Rear Bumpers |
| This is a L-sized bumperette, on a black GT4 conversion. |
| On the right is the Amerisport L-sized bumper with the connected bar. I believe these were metal, versus fiberglass. |
| I'm still adding to these bumper pages... |
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| Factory Manual definition of changes by VIN. |
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| Copyright By Chuck Melton |