Atten all board members...need a bit of your help here. Anyone with a 70-72 Skylark or GS and a digital camera...please take two pictures of your car for me at the point where the top of the door meets the hood line and rear upper fender. The gap between the closed door and the drip rail end on both drivers and pass sides. Im alining this area up on my car, checking some local cars I have noticed they seem to be different, even on the same car! Not too many of these out here to look at. If you can take those two pictures and email them to me it would be great. I have set up a new email address to accept any and all pictures. I would even take measurements but a picture is worth a 1000... webbtech@gmail.com Thank you for your time and help!
Gap Thanks for those who emailed me the pictures of their cars for reference.. Got a better idea how this needs to be done!
In case some don't know, NOS fenders will not align as well as "true" factory fenders. The NOS will have a larger gap, no matter what you do they are different.
Gap or no Gap Found somthing strange about these two gaps, the drivers door if measured top to bottom is 3/8 shorter! It could never fit right. Im bound to make the bottom gap the same and deal with the difference at the top...I bet the door had been changed... thanks for the reply. Mark
Still need pics??? gaps on these things can be a bitch...I have spent hours and hours on my car and its pretty good but never perfect. Look at factory pics, they were no screaming hell either. Anyway, I can take pics if you need, just let me know. On thing that can make a huge difference is the shimming under the rad support, this has the effect of 'tilting" the fender so will close the gap at the top and open it at the bottom although if your door is actually shorter not much you can do with that...but you have to watch the peak line as well. later Tim
Gap or no I would accept any pics I can get... funny though, the doors are actually different in measurment. 3/8 from front top to bottom of door each side and the drivers door is shorter! Send the pics to the webbtech@gmail.com address and thanks! Mark
Mark, thre pics on the way, already taken. If you want I can take shots of whatever you need tomorrow. maybe you should post pics of what you have and then we can see what you are up against! The 3/8", where are you measuring that exactly? Doors will be slightly different dependiing where the foldover is, plant, tooling, reskined etc. As long as its not huge not a big deal. I've alwasy thought as long as the gaps are even, they don't draw too much attention. Later Tim
