Anyone Paint Their Rear Bumper

Has anyone painted their rear bumper on their Mach I body color?  The front one is already body color and I am debating about painting the rear one on mine too.  I would weld studs on the back and smooth the outside so there are no bumper bolts visible.  Show me some pictures if you have done this.

I have not done it, but I have seen it done a few times and it usually looks really good. I'm not a painter but I would think that painting over chrome would be challenging. Perhaps a more durable solution might be powdercoat?

Austin Vert is the site's true paint guru-me, I never graduated from fingerpainting

I have been contemplating this for awhile.  It looks good on the rite color.

I did black chrome on a rear bumper one time. I thought it looked fantastic with a blacked out taillight panel, right up until the moment some a-hole rear ended me doing 60.

Steve

Has anyone painted their rear bumper on their Mach I body color?  The front one is already body color and I am debating about painting the rear one on mine too.  I would weld studs on the back and smooth the outside so there are no bumper bolts visible.  Show me some pictures if you have done this.

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Mine is painted body color.  I didn't smooth it out like you mentioned but that's a great idea so I'll likely do that someday. 

I like it. Mine will look a little different since my valance is black.

My neighbor did.  Turned out kinda nice... 

lollerz

midlife, now that is one fine painted rear bumper. Here's lookin' at cha!       :whistling:

I did it on my vert, looked better than chrome.

I did it on my vert, looked better than chrome.

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Hi Thin Lizzy,

I see you have the individual trunk letters on your deck lid! Are they the kind you stick on or pin on? Thanks!

I had an old bumper laying around, so I went ahead and painted it.  Here is what it looks like on the car.  I also have a billet honeycomb panel that I accented with blue.

If you have a chrome shop near you they can put in the tank and strip it

Or you can sand it,use metal prep. to etch it. Then etch or epoxy primer. I have also used axalta (dupont) 222s adhesion promotor on brushed stainless and polished aluminum with good results, it will stick to glass also

I had an old bumper laying around, so I went ahead and painted it.  Here is what it looks like on the car.  I also have a billet honeycomb panel that I accented with blue.

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Looks great! The matching bumper/body color and the billet honeycomb panel work very nicely together.

Not my bumper, but I kinda like how this turned out...