What does everyone do with engine and bumper cores? I have several 350s and bumper cores 70-72. They are too nice to scrap, but not good enough for drivers

 

Any 442 rear cores? Id be interested.

 

Yes, I have 2. One better than the other both OEM

 

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I'd like to rebuild a 350 for practice and testing out machine shops before I tear into my 400. If you're not pressed for time, maybe I could come up once it gets warmer and buy one in person.

 

if any are 71-2 front bumpers and not bent at all and no dings, they are worth listing on eBay. Real nice 71-2 front bumper cores are VERY hard to come by.

 

Zimmerman Bros Motorsports in Greesburg Indiana may be a drive for you but he is in my opinion the very best you are going to find in Indiana. He is two hours from me and I will not use anyone else now. He did he machine work on my W-30. He is far from the lowest priced though..

 

Sell them, anything you get from a sale is better than the $3-5 you'll get for scrap, and someone can use them.

 

Send them my way...I have a very nice 71/2 driver quality front and a decent core...but nobody's lining up to buy either :-(

 

High end restorations will not use the repop bumpers. You will not sell it right away but I hate to see them scrapped. High end restorers doing a 71-72 have a real hard time finding nice cores. Almost all of them are bent. I just sold a real nice 71 core and got $100 for it. The guy jumped on it at that price.

 

I guess these high end restoration guys are unaware that dings and dent are not a problem if you go to the right Chrome shop. The one i used said that and had a 70 442 bumper that was not a re-pop.All i had to do is furnish a core or pay the core charge. Core charge was $200 at the time. I had a core. Now the last time i talked to them last year they had none in stock but would fix your core and return it repaired and re-chromed. I still have one oem core 70 442. The work at Superior was very high quality. I never installed the re-chromed bumper it is being stored because i am still racing the 442. I plan on retiring the 70 442 when tube chassis car is operational. EST 2018

 

you can call the bumper boys out of Cali..if they are coming to a swap meet near you, they will make an effort to buy if you show up...they buy a lot..

well..they did, i am not sure anymore..but they bought 40 cores from me then bought another batch the following year...it has to be a BIG meet, but they do travel..

i would never buy one from them, too many horror stories..and it aint worth shipping them, but they do buy....its an option if you can make it work

http://www.bumperboyz.com/main.htm

 

The high end guys want a perfect core so they do not have the hammer marks on the back side. That is why many of them buy NOS and then rechrome them. Just can't find NOS fronts for 71-72.

 

LOL hammer marks! Not how it is done. At least that is what i was told and mine has no hammer marks.

 

I can relate. I like to sell everything but not everything sales. And to keep everything is just about impossible.

I have found that any strait bumper will sale and all of my good 350ci Rocket cores sale rather fast.

 

I have yet to look at a rechromed bumper that does not have hammer marks on the back side. The dings and dents are hammered out and then on the front side they get finished with the copper coat. A bent one CAN be straightened but there are many stories out there of getting a bent bumper fixed and then it still not fitting perfect after it is done.

I am sure not saying to keep everything. I am just saying that if you are like me, I am more into preserving Oldsmobiles than I am making money form them. I would keep the 71-2 front bumper cores that are perfect. If it is bent at all, toss it. If it has to many dings I would toss it. I toss all my 70 front cores except for ones with driver quality chrome on them. NOS 70 fronts are easy to find.

 

I too have seen what sure look like hammer marks or some kind of tool that was used to strike the back of the bumper, sometimes dozens of times to straighten it out. Maybe some shops use a porta-power type thing to straighten them?

 

bumper on my 442
show chrome
looks like north star
in the substrate

 

Yes that is what Bob Baker said they use a press/port -power. He said they had a block of some kind like a jig. He didn't explain the whole operation i thought i had a new bumper because no marks on back side. You should have seen the turd i gave them for a core. Looked like tank hit it!

 

I have seen the backs of some of the bumper boys bumpers & what I saw scared me into never buying anything from them without seeing it in person first. Some of them were welded up nasty looking messes with very nice chrome on the front.