Mounting area for both early and late bumpers?, Is this normal? Options

[poorsche914]

Question for you gurus out there...

My recently purchased LE has the "lip" running across the front edge that I thought was only on the '75-'76 to help hold the big bumpers.

Also, as you can see in one of the pics, the hole for the late model bumper shocks is there but so are the early bumper mount holes (of course, since that is the bumper that is on it)

Did they set up the front for both style of bumpers as a transition or ???

The bumper top was not covering the "lip"... should I remove that piece?

Thanks.

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[70_914]

That foglight mounting system is interesting. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) I just checked my 2 sets of foglights and they are all the same, but different from yours. Mine mounts with the bracket vertically, and not to the horn mounting bolt. There appears to be a small extension welded to the end of your bracket..... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif)

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[poorsche914]

Yes, I noticed that too but the rains came and I didn't have a chance to really investigate. Looks like there is no mounting hole to the bottom of the fog. I wondered why the fog light flutes were running horizontally instead of vertically.

The PO mentioned the passenger side front fender had been dented and repaired but nothing about the front end having had any repairs. Could have been done before he owned it? I will check tomorrow to see if I can tell if the front section was replaced.