Fiberglass gt rocker panel covers, From old group buy Options

[Seelenfan]

I purchased a set of steel GT flares and fiberglass rocker covers from another member here on this site. They were from the group buy a while back. Is it me, or is anybody else thinking they packaged factory rejections for the rocker panel covers? I don't care how much trimming you try to due, that won't fix the giant bow in the middle (outward). There is no way they match the body shape / door line. Has anybody found a good fitting rocker cover?

[burton73]

I do not know who’s GT rockers you have but I went through 2 sets made by different companies till I got a set of AA rockers from there early runs several years ago. My set where black and the fit was good. I could see that they would still need a little love to get them perfect but each car is different when it comes to the fit.

What I did find with the rockers from Getty and I do not know who mad the 2nd set but the length was different by almost 2 inches. I did an old thread on it several years ago with pictures. I sold one set and trashed the 2nd.

I have a bit of fiberglass experience in the tooling area and if a company does what I call a splash of someone else's part by using that one as the pattern for the next generation, then the next set will come out a different size because of shrinkage. So a tool of a tool, of a tool is smaller. The closer you are to the original the better in less you increase the size to allow for the shrinkage.

The length shrinks more than the height. Cutting the length and spacing it out can fix what I see on yours. Body shops do this as fitting. The better the part the less fitting.

Bob Burton