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Old 05-02-2014, 02:25 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I was looking at pushing the front fender edge up to the door cutline here, I didn't get into what's fender and what's skirt:

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Old 05-03-2014, 04:55 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I'm lost.
Would somebody post a pic to explain on what the OP meant by constant camber?
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Old 05-04-2014, 01:05 AM   #13 (permalink)
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I assert 'constant camber'='bubble skirt'.



This ones more like the '57 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser,


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I've started looking at Monokote for this. You can buy large sheets that would save the plugging step of fiberglass.
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Here is the skirt i made out of fiberglass for my old Del sol.

The del sol body was really "bulge -y." Simply bolting on a cover on wheel wells would not allow smooth flow. Therefore, i used a coroplast sheet, extended the "leading" edge to contour better with the body....then fiberglassed it.







Unfortunately, i never got around to make the passenger side skirt
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Have you looked at http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post428353? Everything that is not blue has been redone.
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Stretch some polyester cloth over a form. I have used wire and and foam as forms. The cloth can be covered with a layer of composite cloth and have epoxy painted on. I got the idea from watching a TV show of someone making speaker enclosures in the back of a car.

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