So now other than not really having front or rear bumpers she was a relatively clean rust free good running Taurus. TAURUS!!! NOOOO, we want a Tamaroooooooo!!! Now keep in mind I did all this in less than a year with no training and this is my first time fabricating anything. First step of the transformation to The Tamaro was getting that giant menacing Camaro front bumper on. Remember how large it was? Well I just hacked that sucker in half! I used a sawsall or the most dangerous tool ever made. Imagine holding a 20lb saw with a 10” open blade in one hand while cutting the bumper in half. Whew, I still have all my limbs :P Harder yet was mounting those giant headlights, ugh! I had to cut out a box of sheet metal where the old headlights were, while still leaving the radiator structurally sound. I considered pushing everything even further back and using the Taurus hood as top of the bumper, but I wanted it closer looking to a real Camaro. It did make for some large front fenders, which you will see later. So I buried those big ol headlights deep into the Taurus front end. I then mounted half the Camaro bumper at a time from the outsides in. I then cut off the extra from each side or about 8” total!
Unfortunately the middle part is the pointy part so the Tamaro has more of a rounded to flat front end than a real Camaro. Having pulled Camaro bumpers off like 15 times I knew just how to mount this one. I made a basic crash bumper bracket out of 1 inch angle iron. Not for protection, but to support bumper. You can even see where I dropped it down to mount the 2 lower bolts on the underside of bumper. I also made a top piece to mount to bumper on the Taurus radiator support. Look at the pic below, well hmmm, that bumper is kinda low. Like 4” off the ground!!! So I cut off the ugly bulges on the V6 Camaro bumper cause well, I had too! One morning I had to cut the hood to match bumper. Ummm, that was a fun morning!
