Help Please

[MACKIN]

In the process of restoring a 72 Duster. Car has a full glass tilt front clip. So you know that the rear fender is cut to allow tilt.

I don't want to use the Rube Goldberg glass pieces for the bottom rear instead steel in order to give me a solid place to hold the nose for street use.

A photo would help.

Problem is the patch piece really doesnt reach the lower sub frame bolt holes to keep the body line? What do I need to do buy fenders or inner wheels?

I may also have to buy doors. Does anyone make a Fiberglass door that excepts stock window?

I have numerous pictures of the in process resto.

TIA



Couple teasers

 

[MACKIN]

Is there a secret hand shake here?

 

[AdamR]

If its going to be a street car I would find a donor car to cut the front clip off of.

 

[memike]

Is there a secret hand shake here?

No MACKIN no secret hand shake here, First off let me welcome you to this great site, I have never herd of a fiber glass door with hard ware to fit a window that will hold all the linkage to roll it up and down.
It looks like a nice race car, I would think a good fabricator could do something.
I guess going back to a complete front cap is out of the question ?

 

[MACKIN]

On the doors my thinking is many street rods have the availability to run doors with glass. Going back to a steel front clip isn't what I want to do.

Looking to keep the car light for occasional strip use. This car wont be a daily driver but more of a weekend warm weather cruiser.

I have a excellent fabricator working on the car in all areas sheet metal and fiberglass. He has already done a slick job of reinforcing with steel matte and resin the front hinge mount. This should carry through at the bottom of the fender rears that I'm mentioning. I want to go steel for the lower part for a good solid mount to minimize flexing. This would be the only issue with street use is the nose flexing around causing stress cracks.

I was hoping that if someone was in the process or had OEM fenders off they could show me the proper mount to the lower rocker so something can be fab'd up. The repair panel appears to be like a repair skin?

They sell fiberglass fenders and I've even seen fiberglass Quarters. So I guess the doors are strictly race with lexan windows only.

Guess I'll have to go steel as I cannot find through searching.

Here's the car as purchased. That's one ugly *** scoop! Cut it off quick!

 

[AdamR]

I would check with http://www.glasstek.com/ for the fiberglass.

I dont know of anyone that makes doors that will work with stock windows though. Even with the steel doors should be able to get the cars weight down near 2900-3000 lbs.