Zach's car, a little further along Options

[John Kelly]

Hi Folks,

Here is a picture of Zach's car after some more work. Since Jamie's event we added a little more shape to the flares. Since John Walker's and the flare party at Dave's, I cut the rear fender braces and pulled out the lower rear part of the quarter panels. Made a big difference in the overall appearance of the car. Next we will stretch the fronts out about another 1/2" and add some shape to the upper portions of the rear flares. May also make the edge detail more shallow at the fronts and rears of the flares to match the top of the wheel openings. Not sure if we'll cut the front fender braces and pull them out a little too. It really helps to have taken the car out several times to look at it and make design decisions. More later.

John www.ghiaspecialties.com

[John Kelly]

Hi Carlos, Zach and I are still shooting video. I'm trying to pack as much into it as I can, including design decisions, the use of different tool packages, how to raise tiny low areas and metal-finishing. Once the shooting is done, Zach will start editting. Of course all this taking longer than I thought, but the more I can put in it the better. It would have been quicker to just do one fender complete with a mirror finish, but the process of doing the whole car, and showing the decisions along the way will be more useful I'm thinkin'.

Hi Paul, The area in front of the rear wheel is wider than the lower rear part of the body already. Pulling that area out would create problems with the flow into the door, and would require modifying the rocker. Although this could be done, we won't be doing it on this car. If we were going wider than 8" wheels, it might be necessary. The lower rear area was easy to pull out a little without affecting anything else much. A better way to "pull" out the front would be to stretch the metal in front of the rear wheel to create a reverse curve into the door area, making for a more pleasing line than a pulled fender. You are right, I don't much care for fiberglass on a steel car.

Jeff, Zach is going to weld the side marker light holes up for a smoother look.

Thanks for the feedback, John www.ghiaspecialties.com