Thread: fiberglass fender stuff

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As I get deeper into the enterprise of adding fiberglass fenders, running boards, and fender splash aprons to the roadster pick-up, something has come to light that is rather interesting. I am running 11" wide rear fenders on stock width box, and that comes to about 42 3/4" inside to inside of the rear fenders. I don't know what that dimension is on a 28/29 Ford sedan, but when I spread the splash aprons wide enough apart to mate up properly with the inside of the rear fenders, the top of the aprons are almost off the top of the frame at the rear of the aprons. They are fine at the front of the roadster, as I believe all model A cars, roadsters, etcetera were the same width at the front of the frame. At any rate, when I seen this, I thought, why not weld a peice of 2 1/2" x 3/16" flat bar to the outside of the framerails at the top to act as a support for the splash aprons? Then on closer examination I thought, why not burn off the original front body mounts, and run the flat bar far enough foreward to act as the front body mount also. The attached picture shows what I have done, and the bars extend from where the rear of the splash aprons fall to the area previously occupied by the front body mounts.

Looking good. I got a question for ya though.... Say you wan't to put some double wide tires in the back.... how can you tub it out and all with the fenders on the side that can unattatch from the bed and have a gap.... do you know if it's hard or anything like that on a truck like that? I am looking at a 33 chevy and it's just like that with the fenders and all...

Nothing is hard if you have the building skills and experience. If you wanted to tub it out (I don't)--you would either A--widen the rear fenders about 4 to 6" by splitting them up the middle and adding a peice This is not a big deal, I have done it before. or B---buying newer wider fenders, or C--unbolt the existing rear fender and fabricate a new wider spacer to replace the 1" square tube which I currently am using as a spacer between the bed side and the rear fender.
The running boards could be left stock, or flared at the rear to match the fender width. If you wanted to tub the wheelwells inward you would fabricate a steel hoop inner fender, cut the side out of the bed, cut the frame off just ahead of the wheelwells, weld in a crossmember, and fabricate a new narrower frame section for the area between the wheelwells.