Nissan Patrol 4x4 (Africa)

Dankie Alex. Ek is heeltemal gelukkig om die bumpers te verkoop, maar ek is nie bereid om aan ander ouens se karre te sny nie. Lank gelede toe ek dit begin oorweeg het, het ek by Oom Jan van Quantum 'n kwotasie vir die corner chop aangevra. Die prys was heel billik, so dis wat ek sou voorstel as iem...

And it's done...

The next step was to complete the welding on the bumper pieces, and then prep for paint. After that all I had time and energy left for was to cut cardboard templates for the filler plates. This morning I started by painting the bumper corners. But I ran out of paint and had to dash to Builders for s...

Yesterday morning at 06h00 I started dismantling. Renoved the old bumper, the rear wheels, removed the tail lights and removed all the interior bits giving access to the corners. Then the scary bit: chopping the corners. Never ground on a car's body before. Tijmen gave me a good idea here. Apply 25m...

Of course I got my timing wrong and had to wait until this week to get the parts due to year-end shutdown, but the bumper is tacked together.
Now comes the scary part. Chopping the corners...

For the last couple of years, one corner of my car's rear bumper has been pointing out at a rather sad and sorry angle. Every time I straighten it, the very next trail I hook it again. Both corners have also been bashed pretty hard from the bottom. Early in December I decided that the time had come ...

That sounds awesome!

Mess? What mess? You should see my shop...

Very little wear on the interior, so I think the km's are probably genuine though...
Looks pretty good to me.

Welcome Johann

I feel you need to give us something more?
There are many silver GRX's and that one has very few visible mods to identify it by.

Sorry for going off at a tangent Mike:
That seems a pretty well set-up workshop, what kind of work do you do in there?
And what is "the Rocket"? A furnace of some sort?