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MG TD TF 1500 - Bumper blueprint

Check out the drawing the TD bumper on the Abingdon Spares web site on the "service" page. On the overrider cross section as well as the one of just the face bar/mountings, you can clearly see the face bar is much wider at the top than the bottom. Since this drawing exists, no excuse for making the repros wrong anymore! George
George Butz

Ha!
MAndrus

Is it time to fly to Asia,have a steel dye for the front TD/TF bumper
made and get the correct profiled bumper blade manufactured!??
I am not joking!(lol).

Cheers
Rob Grantham
TF3719("Aramis"),TF9177("Athos").
R GRANTHAM

At the recent GoF West I went around surveying cars bumpers. Only a handful of the 60 or so TD/TF's had original bumpers. Many did not even know they had them.
Christopher Couper

Hi Chris,

Our current running TF3719 has of course original bumpers I restored.

The old story,once you know the real from the 'unreal',hard to accept
anything else!

Getting a front bumper blade in very good nick has certainly been a challenge for the 1500. The rear blades seem to be less damaged on average.

Cheers
Rob Grantham
TF3719("Aramis"),TF9177("Athos").
R GRANTHAM

That's my experience over here too. I have a replated original on the back and a repro on the front. The two beaten up front bumpers in my garage are beyond redemption (by me any way). The overriders on the back are also replated originals, with repros on the front - the shape is close but they are considerably thinner metal.
Dave H
Dave Hill

I am surprised on the front versus rear bumper. In the US it seems the opposite. Distracted drivers where (are) always running into the back of the cars.

Check out the picture of my car when it was just a few weeks old. Notice the overrider is missing. My father had to have the entire bumper replaced because a distracted driver just ran into him slowley but enough to totally damage the bumper. The overrider is missing because the dealer only had one.


Christopher Couper

This actually happened so many times that in the early 60's my father went to the junk (wrecking) yard and bought a set of massive Buick bumpers that sort of looked the same and fabricated them to work on the TD.

Christopher Couper

Is the cross section profile the same on the front and rear bumpers?
JK Barter

JK: More or less
Christopher Couper

This thread was discussed between 05/08/2015 and 07/08/2015

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