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Um yeah. I squeezed 175/70's onto the back.
Killed off the '75-'79 rubber bumper look on the back and went with the early style corners of the pre '75 cars. These are fiberglass end pieces from the widebody kit that Spridgetech makes. I called Roderick up and he blew two corners for me for 70 bucks.
I really wasn't expecting much more than a pair of shapes to work with, so I wasn't dissapointed. Because the widebody kit is an overlay I figured that I would either have to blend the corners into the body or split them in half to narrow them down. When I got the corners, one look at them told me that splitting them in half was the only way to do it- the pieces were way to wide. Unfortunately I didn't document this project as I wasn't sure how it was going to work out.
The pieces were really thin so after I split them apart, I mocked them up to the body, trimmed off the exess and then glassed them back together in the inside. I built the whole thing up to about 1/4" thickness, and then glassed them onto the car. Two screws are ran through them and fastened into the rear body for added strength I then worked the whole thing down with glass filler and used the tailight and the bottom of the car for reference in getting the shapes correct.
So far I got the whole back worked down to 240 grit and it passed the black spray paint test so I'm pretty happy. Moving on to the next thing now..
BTW It is alive. I'm driving the thing now. Been just making little shakedown runs here and there and the car is stable up to fifty (that is as fast as I've taken it up to so far and I was worried 'cos two of those wire wheels did not look very true on the tire balancer).