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Old 12-04-2009, 07:37 AM   #9 (permalink)
Wonderboy
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The Fruit Bat - '01 Honda Insight
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From the other thread you just made that asks basically the same question:
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Block off ALL of the grills in the beater bumper, keep it on all year round, and open up a license plate sized hole in the upper grill in the summer. If attaching blocking is easier on the "non-beater" is easier to do, then use that one. I second the motion for a cow-catcher. The winner of both of this year's AMEC Fuel economy run has one, so as far as I'm concerned you should make your car look as much like his as possible (See AMEC threads). $10 worth of aluminum stock from a home improvement place will build you the support you need to turn that piece of coroplast into a cow catcher.
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