Thread: How to tuck in your front bumper on a model A Ford

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Wow---I'm impressed. The bumper looks a ton better pulled in closer to the body.---You may ask "why am I doing this when I am supposed to be prepping everything for final paint?"---Well its because the bumper brackets have to be painted when I paint everything else, and I sure as heck couldn't modify them after the paint is on them. The only part of the operation that I didn't show is at the rear of the brackets---when mounted on the car they interfere slightly with the repop front fender supports. I didn't want to mess with the fender supports, so I trimmed about 1/2" off the rear of the bumper brackets, and I am going to have to use a carbide drill and put one new 17/32" hole in the rear of each bracket and drill the frame for new rear bumper bracket bolts. If I had been running the original Henry style fender brackets, I wouldn't have had to do this.