SS/T front bumper question

I used to own a 1997 Ram SS/T (photo attached). Regret ever selling it. I recently purchased a 1999 Ram Laramie with only 32k original miles on it (photo attached)! Has the 360, full leather interior...loaded out. Im not a fan of the front bumper on it, and would love to add a color matched front bumper like I had on my SS/T. I just cant remember though, did the SS/t's come factory with a fiberglass wrap on a standard bumper, or was it a different, paint-able bumper all together?

Thanks!

I believe it's the same bumper, just color matched like a sport would have. They might have an air dam below that sports don't have though

You may very well be correct. But I just dont see them prepping and painting the steel bumper. Makes me think it was a different made bumper, or a fiberglass wrap of some kind.

Not likely, the sports were just color matched painted factory bumpers. The 99+ sports have a steel frame and one piece plastic cover. If you want the one piece style any bumper from a 99-01 sport would have what you need. Also lmc has the entire assembly but that's a 1200$ bumper which is ridiculous.

The SS/T bumper is a Sport bumper. Only difference in what you had vs what I've seen is that the Sports had the black bumper pad on top and yours was painted.

If you wanted the older sport style you could also find a junk 94-98 sport and repaint it to match. New grille would also be in order but ebay can get you all that for less than 400 compared to lmc's 1200

This seems simple, but I just have a feeling it would look cheap:

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/s..._lh2KjZzpEBO9_eJzRtcZlszhJZKzouhrMBoCNxzw_wcB

Anyone ever installed one of these?

Actually yes, 98Hemi Ram has one on his truck right now.

Great thanks. Im new to the forum, but I'll track him down and send him a PM for his thoughts.

Thanks!

The color matched bumper is probably the same like everyone has said, just instead of putting the chrome coating on it, they just did proper prep work and also same with the plastic, u could defiantly scuff the chrome and plastic with some really ruff, like 180 grit, then use a etch primer because that sticks best to any surface that isn't bare metal or that sort, then do you color matching. I like the color matched bumpers also and it would look great on that new truck of yours !

Just want to say that SS/T looks badass. You should regret selling it.

I know the thread is kind of old, but here goes. I just put a chrome 94 bumper on my 98 SS/T. The SS/T bumper was trashed and the 94 Bumper was free.

I panted the chrome, and added the bottom plastic from the SST to the chrome one.

The steel bumper is the same. The air dam/ light shroud fit perfectly. The top bumper pad fit perfectly. The bottom plastic almost fit perfectly. There are plastic clips that hold the plastic to the steel bumper. The 94 steel didn't have two of the holes for the clips, so I just broke those off.

The other difference is that the 94 didn't have fog lights, so there were no mounting holes for the lights in the steel.

Also, going from 94 truck to the 98, the center brackets are different at the truck end. So I swapped the brackets. The outer brackets were fine.