For argument's sake, if a set in good condition just happened to come my way, what would they realistically be worth? I guess that they can't have been cheap by any means when you could buy them new.
To authenticate, should they be steel or alloy tube? I have heard tell that they were aluminium...
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Re: Projectzwo bullbars and bumpers
Sets were for sale at Syncro 25 for a grand,
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Re: Projectzwo bullbars and bumpers
All they do is increase your already bad front overhang.
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Good point, well made. Rapidly going off them now...
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Re: Projectzwo bullbars and bumpers
They were made from 3" steel tube with Aluminium checkerplate and had a price tag of a grand at Syncro 25 but there were still there when I was leaving. They weigh a ton and screw up your overhang as Russle says and up close look naff!
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OK I'll fess up... got an enquiry today about making a one-off set from drawings that the customer had aquired. When I asked about materials he thought they were all alloy (probably from the chequerplate) but then a search showed up a BY thread from 2007 and the comment that they weigh a ton, which didn't quite square with what had been said beforehand.
I don't think that a unique set could be made for a grand anyway, not with all the tube bending, jigging up required to TIG them together and still fit correctly, never mind the plating/painting.
I don't think that a unique set could be made for a grand anyway, not with all the tube bending, jigging up required to TIG them together and still fit correctly, never mind the plating/painting.
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You wouldnt get too far with £1000 making these up! The bends would cost a fortune along with the end caps!!
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So they had welded end caps too? They must be std pipe fittings then (my HNC was in process plant design for BOC)
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The plans are/were all over the internet.
I have them somewhere.
Bloody awful things they are.
I have them somewhere.
Bloody awful things they are.
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I can't see anyone in their right mind wanting to pay a grand to fix that amount of scaffold to each end of their van, even a Gowesty customer but each to their own, eh?
I found the plans too, I think it's on the first page of a google search for "projectzwo bumpers"
I much prefer the Jagdwagen bar/roffrack combo, pity it was never available for tin-tops.
I found the plans too, I think it's on the first page of a google search for "projectzwo bumpers"
I much prefer the Jagdwagen bar/roffrack combo, pity it was never available for tin-tops.
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I got some front ones behind my shed..
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syncroand101 wrote:I got some front ones behind my shed..
Does it effect it's aproach angle?
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Re: Projectzwo bullbars and bumpers
syncroand101 wrote:I got some front ones behind my shed..
Dont move them or your shed will fall down
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