Holden by Design Bodykits or similar?

[funky rubber marks]

Hi everyone, can someone help me out? I hit what looked like a shallow puddle on the road at some speed, however it turned out to be a tad deeper than I thought! What was even more unexpected was my whole front bumper assembly to rip off and go straight under my wheels! as you can imagine, I wasnt too happy! Now I am trying to find a replacement, but to my shock and horror apparently the front end I had is next to impossible to find. I have a holden by design body work kit on the car and it turns out that I cant get a replacement bottom skirt to go over the standard front bumper (which is what a HBD body kit really is) I have called a few dealers, looked on ebay, searched google offered a virgin sacrifice to any gods who would listen but to no avail. I did manage to locate one, but the price they wanted made me choke and turn a pale green. Now most likely I will need to get a whole new front end, but all the body kits I have looked at are just a variation of clubsports and HSV's not that there is anything wrong with that, but I would like to keep my chrome grill and keep with the subtle lines of the rest of the car.... Does anyone know where I could find something similar to a HBD front bumper? or something that I can keep my chrome grill in?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Here is a pic of my car BEFORE my excursion into VT scuba diving.

[Caprice5L]

i'd suggest ebay but since youve already looked there how bout vt ss? looks similar.

[stevoss]

manta lips

[STEALTHY™]

Yeah manta are similar, but also just as hard to find.

How badly was it damaged? might still be able to be repaired cheaper than that stupid price you saw.

HBD themselves are stupid. I rang up about my wheels, they wanted $570ea. I bought a set of 4 for $700 off ebay.

[Harley92]

thats one sec=xy car man. i love it. umm. yeh hsv manta or maybe monaro kit? looks like a vt calais/exec with a new lip on bottom. umm, yeh manta, vt monaro or as the other guy said, vt ss is very similar

[Harley92]

p.s. wat are ur rims? ;P

[VT SERIES II]

yeah I like those rims too,

Um I rekon you could probably have a replica made by the spoiler shop or just on the monaro front end which looks quite similar...sexy car by the way