96 Ford Courier/Bravo dual cab

Hey guys here's my little daily truck, nothing flash just my daily.

Can anyone tell me what options I have in the way of chrome bumpers/grille for a pc courier. I have seen the ranger upgrade, I think this courier below has ranger grille and possibly bumper aswell? Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm thinking of just painting everything white, lower bumper, bumper ends, grille and headlight surrounds too.


Hers a couple of pics of my courier to date. All I've really done is tidy it up a little, new headlight surrounds + headlight upgrade, tints, wheels (16"s only, trying to keep it semi legal), re indexed the front torsions 3 splines, reset leaves in the rear with 2.5" blocks coming this week. It's just a daily so not going over board just getting it a little more to my liking



This pic I'm stuck in the driveway on the towbar. This is reset leaves only. Towbars coming off tomorrow 14/06/15

Here's the earliest pic I have of it. All I had done here was tints.


This is how high it sat with new wheels on lol


This is reset leaves only so still to come down 2.5" in the rear which should bring it down a little lower than the front making the front look a little lower. (Touchwood)


Today Im spraying my bumper and ends white, contemplating still spraying the grill and headlight surrounds aswell.

Masked, primed, and sanded ready for first coat



That's it for now. I will get some better pics shortly. Thanks for looking guys.

There are chrome bumpers and grilles available. I see them on ebay.com all the time. The one in the pic above looks to be a Toyota bumper. A popular conversion, but not one I particularly like.
Since you live in Australia, where you may have a plentiful supply of Proceed Marvie parts, why not go with that option?



If I had these front end part available to me, I'd be all over them!

I like your stock front end the best out of all of the years. Keep it stock [THUMBS UP SIGN]

sorry for the thread jack but why did america receive a different looking ford truck(ranger) for the 86-93 mazda years but other countrys kept the courier that looks like its built from a mazda?
Btw truck looks good man I dont know why you want to change the front end!

[/quote]There are chrome bumpers and grilles available. I see them on ebay.com all the time. The one in the pic above looks to be a Toyota bumper. A popular conversion, but not one I particularly like.
Since you live in Australia, where you may have a plentiful supply of Proceed Marvie parts, why not go with that option?



If I had these front end part available to me, I'd be all over them![/quote]

Man up until now I haven't been able to find anything on eBay like what you said so I changed my eBay settings to US and found a heap of chrome stuff. Like the below bumper and grille. So nice. Unfortunately they won't ship to Australia




Thanks bro it's getting there. Would definitely look a lot better with a lick of paint. Blocks got here today so will put some decent pics up next week sometime. Thanks for the input fullas, good to know there's fellow truckers still out there.

Because the American Government imposed a 30% tax on certain items coming from over-seas, utility vehicles included. So Mazda decided to instead of paying a 30% tax on a low priced vehicle, they will re-badge the turd of a Ranger to sell at a much cheaper price. This tax is still in place, some have work arounds, like the Ford Transit Connect small van thing, is shipped here as a passenger vehicle, and they get converted to cargo vans in America, which gets them around the 30% tax. Its called the Chicken Tax if you want to wikipedia it.

Here's a couple of pics of it after spraying the bumpers.



The rest of the ute needs a good wash, cut, Polish and wax which I'll attack on the weekend.

I put my blocks and shocks in tonight. Ending up taking 2 hours cause I had to go to supercheap for a drill bit to drill out the hole on the bottom of the blocks. Typical, nothing ever goes smooth haha. It was 2 dark too get any pics. There's about 5mm of travel to the bumpstops that are cut down to about 7mm above the ubolts. The diff sits about 90mm off the ground.