Hello All:

1967 Volvo 122S Wagon. Wendy, an excellent driver all around, managed to get one of the front bumper "overriders" (those two vertical horn-like appendages) hung up on a concrete curb. When she tried to back the car away, it pulled in such as way to deform the mounting plate that attaches the overrider to the main bumper.

No big deal, I thought. I will take both of them off and somehow reshape the plate on the buggered side to look like the unbuggered side. Then I tried to take the beasts off.

(Cue memories of the New York Times piece last year which showed a picture of Colin Powell's nearly identical wagon, with the same overrider deformed in a similar way. I know the good General takes good care of his beasts, and I found it curious that he would leave something so glaringly uncorrected.)

I have no trouble finding the 9/16" bolts on the inside of the bumpers that attach to the overriders, but turning these bolts yields no unscrewing of the bolt that I can detect. I felt around inside the overrider and for the life of me I cannot imagine how anyone could trap what feels like a nut inside each one.

Does anyone have experience with this?

Cheers,

Jeff Pucillo