What bumper brackets

I finally decided yesterday that I would put on my new rear bumper on in place of my old one that has been beaten up. (by new bumper, I mean a 2 year old bumper that has been sitting in the garage, collecting dust, waiting for me to get to it, new)
Anyways, I took off all the bolts... wait...make that broke them all off.. and took of the old bumper off. Well, I took one look at the bumper brackets and started laughing. The brackets were no more after barely touching them. The only thing holding on my bumper was my hitch and tire mount.
I'll let the pictures do most the explaining.

http://www.frontiernet.net/~bofcville/brackets.JPG
http://www.frontiernet.net/~bofcville/brackets2.JPG
http://www.frontiernet.net/~bofcville/bumper1.JPG
http://www.frontiernet.net/~bofcville/bad.JPG

All I have to say is that I'm glad I got that fixed before attempting to pull my new trailer.

Yikes! Ain't it great living in the Rust Belt

Yep! Gotta love 20 years of slush and build up on that bumper

hey thats just like mt DD i have right now. i'm afraid to touch anything. Its rusted so bad there are big hole in the class 3 hitch so i can't tow anything with it.