Thread: 57 Chevy Cruizer

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Originally Posted by 1gary

While you have off the quarters,are you going to expand the wheel well openings for a bigger tire??.

I made the openings 31" diameter...seeing as how it's an old style gasser the openings will be way higher then the tire anyway!!! Street tires will be 28.5", slicks are 29.5"

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

I made the openings 31" diameter...seeing as how it's an old style gasser the openings will be way higher then the tire anyway!!! Street tires will be 28.5", slicks are 29.5"

I must have missed that in the thread.On a AMC called "The Average Nash" they cut a square up and over the arch of the opening on the quarter panel.Then pc'ed in the expansion in the center keeping the same arch.Then trimmed each end of the cut-out and welded it back on the quarter panel. I looked stock and was pretty slick.

Originally Posted by 1gary

I must have missed that in the thread.On a AMC called "The Average Nash" they cut a square up and over the arch of the opening on the quarter panel.Then pc'ed in the expansion in the center keeping the same arch.Then trimmed each end of the cut-out and welded it back on the quarter panel. I looked stock and was pretty slick.

Neat look, I guess.... Think I'll just stick with the round opening, don't like the look of the stock opening at all, kind of copying the Nomad and Sedan Delivery style from '55, round and plain...