Colour coded bumpers on an 88 ES

[gingherheed]

someone pleeeeease tell me whether an 88 ES could have had something other than the 'orible black bumpers.

I am going to put colour codeds from a 92 ES on it but my aim is to kep the car real.

I'm hoping that colour coded bumpers were an optional extra in 1988. Then I can justify doing it.

Then I want to get car valued. Anyone got any ideas about that? 1.7 ES on an F plate. 53000 miles. Very very good condition for year and everything works. The original owner looked after it very well. No mods at all.

Ta

[esta]

Off the top of my head-and I dont know if its something i imagined, or whether it is true-but I think that it was only non colour coded for the S and an option on the (early) ES....

[Ben Harris]

Back when the 480's first came out, my parents had 2 of them (one after the other - not at the same time) - They started off with an '88 ES in white, and then a year later traded it in for an '89 Turbo in petrol-blue, both brand new. I remember at the time my Dad telling me that you could tell which one's were the Turbo models, because they had the colour-coded bumpers, and the non-turbo's didn't.

So... based on that logic, the early early ES's all had black plastic bumpers. (no concept of the S models until sometime later on in the '90s)

Ben.

[gingherheed]

Thanks for that folks.

I think I'll take Esta's word for it and use the colour codeds anyway.

[lee]

i had an 88 es black with colour coded bumpers. Believe it was standard on black cars with red detailing

[gingherheed]

That's it then. Colour codeds it is. Cheers.