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I have a long, long road still ahead but this is what I have so far. It's only primered right now.

Are you going to cut/weld/extend the taillights to the new contours?

Your giving me ideas! Stop it!



P.s. Dude... Awesome!

Definitely different

evolutionmovement wrote:Are you going to cut/weld/extend the taillights to the new contours?

No, I don't think so. I never really considered that actually. Sooo, maybe!

Redlined wrote:Your giving me ideas! Stop it!



P.s. Dude... Awesome!

Thanks a lot! I wasn't sure how to do this but I heard of someone using spay foam to make the shape so I tried it and it worked well. I used a knife to get the hardened foam to the shape I wanted then sanded it smooth. I then added a few layers of fiberglass to make it rigid.



Then I smoothed most of the bump out with body filler.







And now that it's primed I can see all the high spots and low spot much easier.




it's been a fun project. I still have no idea what I am going to do with the rear bumper

If you make brackets to support the bumper, you can use parts of a spare bumper to extend the sides out to meet the fenders. The plastic on the 1st generation cars is polypropylene and I'd bet yours is the same, which is a pretty easy plastic to weld. I don't know what would be easier, though: cutting the center and adding a middle, which would require re-drilling all the mounting holes, or cutting the sides off and extending the bumper there. This is something I wanted to do for a little while with my wagon before I decided not to for the sake of other projects.

Love it

Heres a couple I took at the BigNW meet.


So far, I love it! Much props to you for making a totally one off '96 Brighton wagon, yeah I noticed that haha.

that thing is awesome, i took a couple pics of it when i was at BNWM

Thank you all so very much the much needed encouragement. Hopefully I'll get something done about the rear bumper today. Thanks for the pics Danny!

The pics i shot of it, i thought i had more...

Hello everyone. Thanks for the pics and constant encouragement! here are a few I took tonight. The hella sloppy rear "bumper" is simply to fill in the gap until I find a suitable replacement. But I think it's starting to take shape!