GenII - Rear Bumper : Did you know...

[ShoThang]

The salvage yard I work for sold a rear bumper for a 94 SHO today and I was the lucky one to clean it up for our customer... and I noticed it looked like 2 bumpers inside eachother. It was a red GL bumper with just a green rear SHO bumper cover on top.
So I went out and checked my car and sure as sh*t... it was a green inner cover and a red outter SHO cover bolted to it.

Anybody know why Ford did that ?!?
Thats alot of un-needed weight!
So if anybody is looking to lose some more weight in their genII... there ya go.

 

[jdbrady]

Will look on my 94 and see if mine is like that. If so I will be selling a regular Taurus bumper on ebay.

 

[mrecoolgar]

Boy is that odd.
Maybe they needed to do that to space it to fit.

 

[Mr Anonymous]

AFAIK, all gen 2's are like that. Not sure about the color mis-matches, but the SLO bumper cover under the SHO bumper cover is standard.

 

[SHOOFF13]

My sho doesn't have a slo bumper underneath it. I have a 1995.

 

[yamahaSHO]

My sho doesn't have a slo bumper underneath it. I have a 1995.

Look again. The bumper cover simply will not fit or stay in place without it. I figured this out quite some time ago when I had to replace the bumper on my '92. I pulled the SLO bumper off a '92 SHO and did not have to cut any material off.

You'd be hard pressed to save weight by removing it and maintaining the SHO bumper's integrity. You'd have to fabricate something to hold the SHO bumper cover on which probably would not save you any weight in the end.

IIRC, the gen I's may have a SLO bumper too... but I'm not for certain on that. My roommate has a gen I and has had to replace his rear bumper, so I'll ask him later.

 

[LeddZepp8687]

Wow, thats really odd...

Im gonna look at my bumper tommorrow and see for myself!

 

[kjunsniper]

On my Gen I. I removed the stock "SHO" rear bumper cover off of mine and replaced it with a "SLO". It makes the car look more "racey" like a NASCAR. The rear end appears highier. With the other bumper it always look like the ass was dragging.

 

[jelloslug]

Yea, 1st gens are the same. On mine the SLO bumper was not painted and was missing the chrome strip that was on SLOs at the time.

 

[ElKy]

i noticed this on mine the first time i went under the car.
thought it was very odd.
if i remember correctly mine look like unpainted yellow eurethane.

 

[pitcrew207]

that is kinda odd

 

[mrecoolgar]

All right, this one made me look at my Gen 1's.
There is indeed a SLO bumper under the SHO bumper cover.
But the SLO bumper is a one piece assembly that incorporates the side slip mounts as well as the rear mounts to the impact struts.
It is needed to support the thin, flexible SHO cover.
My SLO bumper is unpainted black plastic.

Yea, 1st gens are the same. On mine the SLO bumper was not painted and was missing the chrome strip that was on SLOs at the time.

 

[SASHO91]

wow thats pretty cool....

now im gonna have to go look at the 91 and the 93...

 

[T.O_SHO]

Yup, I just checked, I got a red one under there... Id like to see it fully, anybody have pics of the SLO bumper with the SHO one removed?

 

[blacklabel]

My brother told me this exact same thing today. I don't know if he saw this thread though. This is interesting......now I want to go see what color it is on my car.:corn:

 

[Bringetto]

yeah, i noticed that on a pic of a smashed genII and i went and looked at mine, but my slo bumper is red too, maybe my whole car was re-painted?

 

[green91SHOPlus]

Yeah, I found out about the cover thing when I lifted the rear end of a dead SHO of mine with a bobcat for the **** of it. The back end popped, I set it down, and the cover came off on the right, revealing a black bumper.

 

[baySHO_510]

I checked out my 89 and my 92 and it seems that there is no slo bumper under my SHO bumper... did I end up with two freaks???

 

[yamahaSHO]

Nope, you just didn't recognize it

 

[TYSHO]

Didn't notice one on my 89, but I did on my 92 and 93.