Re: Bumpers

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

Mike Stump <tree@triton.net> wrote:

>I saw three 80's today.  Quite an event (for me anyway).  The odd thing
>about them was that all of them had body colored bumpers.  I know they
>were 80's because I checked the badging on the back.  Two had bumpers
>similar to the ones of on a 200.  The other was like mine (except for
>the color).  Also, none of the cars were Q's.  So, what's with this?
>Were body colored bumpers an option?  Are these cars from a different
>year (mine's an '89 80q)?  Will the 200 look-a-like bumpers bolt on to
>my car?  I'm really starting hat the color of ten year old unpainted
>plastic.

Over here, painted bumpers were optional on the 80 but the 90 had them as
standard (at least the lower half). When I finally get my car repainted,
I'm going to have the guy paint the bumpers, too- I'm not too fond of black
plastic either. And the rear bumper looks crappy since some idiot
overfilled my tank and it spewed 91 RON unleaded all over my bumper (that's
the last time I let anyone else fill my car). Of course, the bumper damaged
in last summer's crash was the immaculate front one...

Saw a 1986 80 quattro yesterday. Now that's a rarity here!

Tom

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 Tom Nas                                          Zeist, The Netherlands
 tnas@euronet.nl
 1988 Audi 80 1.8S, mostly Tizianrot metallic, 215,000km

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