Attention Auto Makers: Bring Back Chrome Bumpers!

Amerisrael ^

[JoeProBono]

[txnativegop]

Matte metal bumpers okay, but chrome is far too reflective on a bright sunny day! It blinds oncoming drivers too easily.

[Domandred]

For a split second you get "blinded" by the sun. In that second, you have a 2 mile per hour collision with a metal parking sign.

That is how my roommate wrecked my 240SX coupe. Cept it was another car, both going 2 to 5 mph. Car still drove but the front 6 inches completely caved in.

[digger48]

[jcsjcm]

Wow - this is such a coincidence! I was just discussing this with my hubby on the ride home today. I saw a rear bumper (plastic mind you) that had been torn off by the rear driver side. I was stating to him why do they not have the wrap around bumpers like the olden cars use to. What the heck is that protecting? There was practically no sign of any bumper under that plastic that was ripped off.

I want my old cars back. Even I use to be able to fix them if I broke down on the side of the road.

[Amerisrael]

Now that’s sporty, for sure!

[john drake]

Unfortunately you’re right. Two things driving this madness; government edict to increase gas mileage and the easiest way is to lighten the weight of the materials that the parts are constructed of, hence easy demolition. As for the car being designed so that the only way any work can be done on it is at the dealer vs. the home handy mechanic, forget it. Those days are over. The dealer and the manufacturer have it in for you from the moment you buy the pig until you get rid of it, kind of like the government medical care program....cradle to grave pickpocketing. Enjoy.

[Stentor]

I learned attention to detail while polishing the chrome bumpers on a succession of family Pontiacs. Took my driving test in a 1960 Bonneville.

[john drake]

Now that is an American car. The Golden Era of America. The car may not have been very safe, but you sure looked good in it. And it was fully made in the U.S.A. before we were dependent on everyone else. That era is gone forever. Forever.

[jcsjcm]

Here's my first car - Ford Fairline 500XL convertible. Mine had red interior - very, very nice! Paid $85.00 for it, I so wish I kept it!

[jcsjcm]

Oops - Fairlane

[earlJam]

*** Your off to work early in the morning ***

“Your”???

[john drake]

I’m crying looking at that beautiful baby. I want my childhood back when that car came off the assembly line in Detroit. As a matter of fact, I want America back the way it used to be. But I know that, as well as Detroit and American cars reigning supreme, is a fantasy. I really cry for my children and grandchildren. They’ll never know how great America really was, for a relatively short period of time in history.

[humblegunner]

How about sturdy chrome front and rear metal bumbers?!

What is a bumber?

[FrankR]

Probably not a good idea...then we’d have another union to f*** with...the Chromeworkers of America or some silly crap.

[srmorton]

This is so true! I have a 2008 Honda Civic which has very low “bumpers”. One morning I pulled a little too far into a parking space and the passenger side of the car got caught on the curb (which was a little higher than the curb is where I usually park). When I backed up a little, I heard a slight grinding noise, but, when I got out of the car to look from the driver's side, nothing seemed to be wrong. I did not notice until the next day when I happened to be on the passenger side of the car that the so-called bumper had actually become dislodged from the car! My husband was able to put it back in place, but it gave me pause to realize how little protection that “bumper” would be were I to have an accident because I was probably going less than two miles an hour when I pulled into the space.

[6SJ7]

How about all natural wooden bumpers??

[troy McClure]

The USA was a better place when Bumpers were chrome and TV was in Black&White.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Modern cars look like jellybeans on wheels.