seen while grabbing lunch today... look at this over the top back bumper

look at the fricken bumpers on this 76 Comet!! Another surprise? It's only got 18k miles

https://fordauthority.com/2026/02/1976-mercury-comet-with-18k-miles-up-for-auction

Even more photos of the Long Beach Fire Dept 1927 Graham Paige touring 621 with the Bright Bumper and Woodlite headlight aftermarket upgrades

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10236997922355032&set=gm.1951583148755931&idorvanity=197491484165115

I posted a lot of photos of these in 2017, and all about the Bright Bumper 

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/04/engine-company-number-1-long-beach-fire.html
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/04/mostly-just-interesting-for-close-up-of.html
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/04/how-cool-is-this-fire-chief-bought.html

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/04/foam-fire-fighting-truck-1929-long.html

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/516/

Cannonball Baker and Eddie Rickenbacker

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Cannon-Ball-Baker-Rickenbacker-Six-Photo-Print-Car-Ad-1965-/164629626419

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1925-Balloon-Bumpers-Ad-Cannon-Ball-Baker-Chief-Test-Pilot-4-Rickenbacker-Six-/154104187813

When Eddie Rickenbacker started manufacturing cars in the 1920s, he hired Baker as chief test driver. Baker broke his own winter cross-country record with a 71 1/2-hour trip (driving time only). 

He also drove a Rickenbacker on a "three flag" journey from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Tijuana, Mexico, in 40 hours and 57 minutes.

Image from page 17 of Pan American Air Ways, Vol. 4, No. 3, June 1933. Caption reads: "Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, America's Ace of Aces in the world war, and "Cannonball" Baker, celebrated racing driver, about to embark at Dinner Key."

https://scholar.library.miami.edu/digital/files/original/eedd5e8f7317f8906235f8dbc63d197e.jpg

https://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/history/people-of-ims/indianapolis-500-drivers/eg-cannonball-baker

https://www.historicracing.com/driverDetail.cfm?driverID=2937

Mostly just interesting for the close up of their front bumpers, and that they were about to get a Barnum and Baily circus tent over them while a new fire station was built

http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/LBFiremen/id/4182

http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/LBFiremen/id/4185

http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/LBFiremen/id/4187

I'm just stumped how little there was online about the "Bright Bumper" until I came across these Long Beach Fire Dept photos. Now we can see close ups of two different models of the low headlight fitted bumpers