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Bumper cover mods

On my 85 bird and on my 84 cougar I tappered the covers in so that it meets flush with the quarter panel and fender. There are also alot of holes to fill where the chrome trim fastens. This way you can lose the side mldings and not have the covers sticking out. It worked well on the older covers, never tried to do an 87 or 88.
 

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That's pretty ed cool! How did you manage to do that? I always thought the plastic those bumpers are made out of was not very "workable"
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nice.  I thought about doing somthing similar if I had the time.  What did you use to fill in the holes from the chrome strip clips?

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At the time I did them I used a plastic welder (glorified soldering iron) sold by mac with the the part # R-1 rod. Then did the finish work with sem plastic repair products. If I was to do it today I would just use some dura-mix or 3M products and forget about the plastic welding. After 10 years of Iowa weather the sem products are starting to deteriorate, especially on the cougar. If your covers are the yellow plactic they are not to bad to work with, I did run into a black plastic frt cover once that nothing would stick to.