Beta Coupe Bumpers

[Celovsky]

I have noticed some of the later Beta Coupe bumpers have a nice chrome insert along the top of the front and rear bumper. (Mine are all black plastic) .
Anyways, I thought the chrome insert bumpers look a nicer.... so I am looking for a set.
Here is what I am looking for......

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Lancia_Beta_Coupe_2.0ie_1982.jpg

Andrew C.

[Jim Keller]

Spider/Zagato bumpers themselfs are the same for same years, so your not limited to just "Coupe" bumpers. It is the end pieces that differ from Zagato and Coupe, they are different lengths at the rear. So your just looking for bumpers from the model year you like. I won't swear by it, but I am pretty sure even HPE's run the same front bumpers

[davidb]

Not to dissect this but '75 - '78 Coupes/HPE "face bars" are
82317203. '79 face bars [same models?] are 82369193. The
face bar for '81-'82 Coupes & Zagatos are the same 193 #.
Those numbers are for FRONT bumpers, not the rears.
"Face bar" is the Mitchell manual term for the bumper
bar over which the rubber is applied. Kuddos to Jim for ob-
serving the wide variance on REAR bumpers model-to-model,
yr.-to-yr.. The rubber bumper overlays only get more confusing,
either end, same-same. And the side rubbers, yikes !!!!

[Jim Keller]

Are those US bumper numbers? he wants the Euro bumpers, they are aluminum you can polish bright with a black rubber rub strips basically. I don't think there is much weight difference unlike popular opinion though due to the insides of our large bumpers being filled with plastic honey comb like cubes and not soild rubber, the black rubber cover is often mistaken for solid rubber when it is just a thin layer over the plastic blocks and a steel bumper bar.
The Euros do have a nicer trimer cleaner look, but I have gotten to the point I like the black rubber bumpers on my Coupe, don't get me wrong, if I ever came accross a nice set of Euro bumpers I could afford, they would be on it by the end of the day the shipping company delivered them! LOL, but I no longer "Strongly desire" them

I weighed my 1st Scorpion bumpers, brackets and bolts, front and rear together were 66 pounds, the fiberglas bumpers without mounting hardware were like 30, I accidentally rammed my 1st Scorpion prior to removing the stock bumpers at about 5 mph with my Mustang once, (don't ask, it was a brain fart moment of haste), and it didn't even scratch it! that's why Scorpion number two retained it's US stock bumpers, I was impressed by their strength and since it was a street car, the lack of protection to the car it's self wasn't worth the 20 pounds savings to me

[Brad Smith]

My 79 coupe was stock externally until I bought it. Can't leave anything alone. Found a VX front air dam in Australia which of course should have the full wraparound stainless bumper up front. Otherwise I would have an ugly tapered gap in front of each wheelwell. For now I have a the 78 & earlier bumper above it and find it stops a little over an inch from the wheelwell leaving a gap so I powdercoated some aluminum pieces to fill it in until I can get the rest of the parts for a S2 NOS stainless bumper I got in England last year. Still need the bumper mounts, rubber rub strip and turn sig assy's to finish it off. Love the VX front air dam. The stainless bumper stamping is so light you can hold up w/ 2 fingers. What a weight reduction. :)

[rossocorsa]

the European spec. bumpers are different at the rear for coupé or hpe they are deeper at the sides on hpe models the front bumpers are the same coupé rear bumpers might fit a spider (zagato) but the profile of the rear end of spiders is different and on earlier cars the spider had a different slightly wider bumper than a coupé there are no S2 FL2 style bumpers for spider as sales in Europe of the spider finished at S2 FL1