Re: 51Packard's....51 Packard
Posted by Charles On 2013/4/28 20:29:07
Oh thank God Ross! I put my bumper back on and I was like, no way is this going to fit! I'm glad you read this before I started hacking things up more! I looked up the e-mails from the car it came from and it was a '54 Cavalier.
Ross, the trunk panel that I am putting in from the '54. Is that a problem or were they all the same from '51-'54?
David, Thanks so much for the pics. You helped me see how it should look. Attached are some ics I took after throwing my bumper back on the car. My bumper seems to sit even closer to the fender than yours. I think my fenders may be off too. David or Ross (or anyone else) is the panel below the trunk lid and the lower part of the fenders straight up and down or does the bottom bow out a little? If I put my new trunk panel against my fenders, the bottom bows out a little. Could be my fenders are not shaped correctly. I still have about a 3/16" lip that forms when I close my trunk and the lid hits the lip when I close it, even with the hinges loosened and the lid pulled as far back as possible. All of this makes me think the fenders are flared out from the previous accident and need to be straight up and down. Someone, please confirm.
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Ross, the trunk panel that I am putting in from the '54. Is that a problem or were they all the same from '51-'54?
David, Thanks so much for the pics. You helped me see how it should look. Attached are some ics I took after throwing my bumper back on the car. My bumper seems to sit even closer to the fender than yours. I think my fenders may be off too. David or Ross (or anyone else) is the panel below the trunk lid and the lower part of the fenders straight up and down or does the bottom bow out a little? If I put my new trunk panel against my fenders, the bottom bows out a little. Could be my fenders are not shaped correctly. I still have about a 3/16" lip that forms when I close my trunk and the lid hits the lip when I close it, even with the hinges loosened and the lid pulled as far back as possible. All of this makes me think the fenders are flared out from the previous accident and need to be straight up and down. Someone, please confirm.
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