[Vic1947]

I began work on the bumper today and made some modest progress. I probably should have searched for a thread where someone had already done this, but I decided how I was going to do it and forged ahead. There's a lot of curve to the bumper in the middle, so I started by laying a straightedge on the raised rib to see where the main curvature began. I then estimated where the center was and laid out the cut lines. To minimize the chances for error, I'm doing this a little at a time.

After the cuts were made, I lifted the cut sections in the center and gently worked the metal by hand until it was pretty straight. I then welded the center cut and let it cool.