What happened to bumpers?

Shane Gralaw · 11-21-2006, 08:12 PM

Remember cars made before 1985? The had bumpers on the front and back end. They were super-useful. There are times in even the best driver's life where you bump something or are bumped. No biggie back in the old days, but now that bumpers are gone and the front and back end are just big pieces of plastic - any little bump turns into a $500 repair bill. I smell a conspiracy!

MarkHastings · 11-21-2006, 08:16 PM

Shane, in the early 90's, I knew a kid who wiped out on the highway. He was ok and the cop said that he was lucky that his car was one of the newer "No bumper" styles because the front and back were so flexible, that he bounced off the guard rail. He said that if he had the old fashioned bumpers, the accident would have been a lot more severe.

Grant B · 11-21-2006, 08:25 PM

Now they are purdddddeeeeeee!

dpippel · 11-21-2006, 08:27 PM

Cars still have bumpers, they're just hidden under expensively molded and painted body panels.

Jay H · 11-22-2006, 07:32 AM

Then the new ones have those backup sensors on them that must be even more expensive to replace!

Jay

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Stephen J* · 11-22-2006, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shane Gralaw

the front and back end are just big pieces of plastic -

Hey now! Some of them have styrofoam filling!

Micah Cohen · 11-22-2006, 11:10 AM

DELICIOUS styrofoam filling! Yum!

MC

MarkHastings · 11-22-2006, 11:44 AM

If they were filled with Silica, do you think they would absorb the impact better?

Karl_Luph · 11-22-2006, 12:35 PM

Takes me back to the days when the women had curves and the chrome was THICK

Chris Lockwood · 11-23-2006, 12:36 AM

I was riding in someone's new Civic & someone barely clipped the front corner of the car in a parking lot doing about 10 mph. The whole front of the car fell off in one piece, like those toy cars from the 1970s that were supposed to do that when they crashed- anyone remember what those were called?

johnADA · 11-23-2006, 09:00 AM