Chrome plating and Corvettes. For lovers of early Corvettes, chrome plating played a major role in the overall styling. From the famed tooth grille of the C1 Corvette to those final chrome bumpers of ...

Modern car bumpers are, in the vast majority of cases, like famous heiresses: beautiful, and useless. They just don't work. There've been many studies and articles decrying the often insane amount it ...

Federal safety regulations — not just corporate cost-cutting — drove the shift from steel bumpers to plastic fascias in the 1970s and 1980s. Modern plastic bumpers hide a sensor-laden support ...