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     I spotted a Dodge frame with front bumper when friend recently showed me where his family laid their cars to rest.

     The bolts came out using only a 10" adjustable, a 3/4" box wrench and some leverage.

      About 50 years ago, Johnny Monroe told me that bolts would always unscrew from prewar cars.  Is seems that's still the case today.

https://damnyankee.com/johnny-monroes-junkyard/

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bumper bolts.jpg

test fit bumper.jpg

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11 hours ago, nat said:

     I may be wrong but as far as I know Johnny Monroe never drove an automobile.

or lived in the pacific northwest! 

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14 hours ago, nat said:

     How did you know that?

I don't know, but my experience does not match re rusted bolts just coming undone like in the photos.  :) After looking at the opening blip in the book, it says South Dakota, there I could understand. 

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23 hours ago, Mark Gregush said:

I don't know, but my experience does not match re rusted bolts just coming undone like in the photos. 

     I was truly amazed that those bolts came out without using explosives. 

     So far the only fasteners that haven't unscrewed from my car or carcass were a #8 screw in the carcass vacuum tank and the slotted screws that hold my car's rear spring seats together.  I gave up on those when I split the head of one screw with an impact driver.

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