Yesterday my Vento bumper finally arrived! I was amazed at how fast it got here since Dimitri had only shipped it on Friday. Along with the bumper, Dimitri sent me all of the other parts he had already replaced with my US pieces.

My box of Belgian goodness included:

• Vento textured top bumper
• Vento CL front lip
• Vento bumper grills
• Vento FER dummy lenses
• Vento FER turn signals
• Vento passenger side mirror
• Vento rear plate holder

I’m planning on selling the rear plate holder since I’ve already got one on my car from GoingFast. $90 shipped. Here’s the link to my Vortex FS thread SOLD.

And here’s one shot of the car all put together and sitting in the old garage. If you’re wondering about the hood, it has been sanded down to bare metal and the washer nozzles have been shaved. I plan on getting it painted sometime in the near future. Look for another post soon about the nozzle shaving process.

I need to look at some of my old photos and try to go out and take comparison pictures with the new euro bumper. I still need to get the Vento mirror bolted on, but that will be another day. I think I’m finally growing tired of my ill-fitting mirror blank I bought on Vortex.

I just got an email that made my week! Hell, it made my month!

You may remember my recent post about all the delays with shipping the bumper. This is what just came in from my pal Dimitri:

Goodmorning Mike,

so there is some news for you!
If everything goes well the box will be shipped out TODAY !!!!!!!!!!!
That company told me it would take about 3-5 days
I guess it should be at your adress before the end of next week
I hope this is some GOOD NEWS for a change ! ??
We really want to apollagy that it took that long (redface) but still it costs us 287,02 euro…
But I really want you to get the bumper before the winter !!

About the rear-bumper, we have to find a way for that before anyone sends one.
I had to re-build the box to some smaller one (max 1,50 m!)
Be carefull when you open the box !!!!

That’s it for now , we are going to that right NOW !
I let you know when we’re back

Cheers

Dimitr

I am SO excited! FINALLY! The bumper should be here by the end of next week and I’ll be rolling around with the only Vento bumper in the entire state of Iowa. So say goodbye to my sad-faced car. Soon it will be sporting a sleek new European facelift.