{"id":2652,"date":"2021-02-18T12:12:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T20:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2021-11-07T07:15:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T15:15:28","slug":"bumper-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2021\/02\/18\/bumper-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumper Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen a guy selling front bumpers on Facebook Marketplace for a couple of months now. They’re basic prerunner-style bumpers, with a large pusher bar, two clevis mounts, and upturned edges, much like the bumper Brian and I built. They’re built from\u00a03″x 4″x 1\/8″ box steel, while my rear bumper is 2″ x 6″.<\/p>\n

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\n(through the magic of Photoshop, I can simulate the look)<\/p>\n

But the thing that caught my eye first was the price: $280 including<\/em> shipping.<\/p>\n

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I did a quick google search and found the company website where they’re selling the same thing for $15 more without<\/em> shipping, and so this sounded like an even better bargain. I’ve got a little less than this amount left in the Scout kitty, but I just sold a spare camera lens a few weeks ago, so I think I might pull the trigger on this.<\/p>\n

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As much as I love the ’72 grille I’ve got, and the overall look of the front my truck, there’s always been something missing. This would be a good start, and would be easily modified for a winch or fog lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen a guy selling front bumpers on Facebook Marketplace for a couple of months now. They’re basic prerunner-style bumpers, with a large pusher bar, two clevis mounts, and upturned edges, much like the bumper Brian and I built. They’re built from\u00a03″x 4″x 1\/8″ box steel, while my rear bumper is 2″ x 6″. (through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bumper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-GM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}