Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab

[sparkydog]

While the front bumper seemed to be an easy choice the rear bumper seems more complicated. The shape of the rear end of the IH truck is awkward (what else is new) and there were a number of bumper shapes that I felt would not work given the contour (or lack of one) of the sides of the truck. So I started wandering around the junk yard on Sat morning. I wanted something that was as wide or wider than the truck so that I would not have to buy another bumper to extend it. I wanted a step style bumper. I wanted it to be flush with the sides and not wrap around. I wanted it to have a top that would extend into the recess under the tailgate of the IH body.

Eventually I bought this Fwurd bumper from a late '80's truck and brought it home to play with. I tried real hard to convince myself to get something that matched up with the front bumper but in the end my functional side won out over my artistic side.

There wasn't much trimming involved to get it to tuck up correctly to the body and now I just have to fab some spacer blocks in order to be able to bolt it up to the frame rails, pass through the cutouts in the IH body and mate up with the F*** bumper brackets.