2nd gen bumper cover on 1st gen?

I ran across this on the Facebook market place and he never responded on how he did it, but I’m really interested. Anyone ever done it?

 

LOL, I actually thought about that.

 

Judging by this post it looks like the 2nd gen is 5 inches wider. So in order make it work you'll have to shorten it by 5 inches

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/1st-vs-2nd-vs-3rd-gen-size-comparison.458693/

 

Lots of mods like this look awful to me. That looks pretty good.

 

If you're good with fiberglass/plastic, you could cut those 5 inches out of the middle and then paint over it....but the lines might not match either

 

No doubt, thats what it looks like how it was done.

 

We doing a throwback to 2016 and trying to be like the Dodge Ram guys....? Hahah

 

But it was done cleanly.

 

So it is wider, I was confused on that. This guys looks like it was done well, he never replied to my questions about it, so I guess I’ll never know

 

well its not magic...

 

There's some fiblerglass company out there (for the life of me I can't remember the name) that does front clip conversions for front ends. You can have a Tundra front end, or a 2nd gen Tacoma front end.

You can even have a 3rd gen front end on a 2nd gen front end.

The magic of fiberglass.

 

That bumper doesn't look like fiberglass though. Look at the fog light cutouts. I don't think a fiberglass bumper making company would go that far to imitate the whole bumper in detail.

 

Yeah I for sure thought that was plastic. I have no idea.

 

Neither of you guys know for sure if it was done cleanly. I only see half of the front bumper. There may be a gawd awful seam right in the middle of the bumper, or the passenger side of the bumper is hanging off by 5 inches.

 

Ok...

 

just sayin.. y'all giving this random person too much credit

 

Well, the picture did give me an idea. It also doesn't look that bad. If I do this I now have fog lights.

 

Why the hell would any self respecting 1st gen owner contaminate their truck by putting a 2nd gen bumper on it?

What is the world coming to?

 

2018!