Here's a better shot of the rear showing the contours without sun fading it out. Still sitting tall, but it's beginning to look like a car.
Here's a better shot of the rear showing the contours without sun fading it out. Still sitting tall, but it's beginning to look like a car.
Gib Bosworth
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Byron, please show some pics of those hood lights if you have some...Marchals I assume?
In answer to another question, no, I am not planning on using cookie cutters and BBS wheels in the final version.... I will be using 8+9x15 Fuchs as soon as Harvey gets them done. I will most likely put a few decals on, plus some black striping here and there.
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Really amazing job Gib! BTW (Better than Werke!)
Regarding flares, a crucial point from my point of view. I have in my archive these flares. Claimed to be an original 2.3 SR from Feustel.
Smaller wheels, smaller flare than yours but quite 'organic' ...
David
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Davser:
ST flare shapes from the day have been discussed many times on this board, and while all seem to have that 'organic' shape to me...they have different shapes. Metal fabricators of the day most likely used the factory provided flares to achieve various extensions for larger wheel/race tire sizes. It has been suggested that Kremer made their own flares, but many others were most likely modified. It would be interesting to know how many STs were factory prepared vs privately done in that famous shot from Christophorus (Thomas Zimmerman) with a gaggle of them leading a starting grid.
Last edited by letsrollbabe; 03-13-2013 at 07:44 AM.
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Just a deduction but I think rally cars (or intented off-track purpose) had more bulbous flares (like your LY ST) than track cars (like Kremers or RSRs) ... It makes sense because rally roads needs longer suspension travel and circuit demands less travel however more width to compensate wider tires and 15" tires torsion.
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Excuse my ignorance (I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested), but did the factory make different flares for 7, 8, 9, and 11 inch wheels for the R, ST, RS, RSR? Was there more than one factory choice for the ST, like 1.5, 2, 3 inch, etc?
Just wonderin'.
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Jens,
It was more of a moving target... From the end of ’69 through the middle of ’72 the technology and rules were changing all the time. By the time WORKS-1 would put out a fender set the rules and or classes would change. And some of the 'independents' (like Kremer) would insist on making the fenders themselves..... it all made for LOTS of variations.....
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Right Chuck, lots of variation starting with the factory's first homologation special with no flares at all. It just seems to me (without going into my library) that a couple of different factory widths existed. Harvey, you out there?
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