JYNXTA Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 i got a question...dont know if this has been asked before, but i have a 86 conquest ( flatty ) i like the look but i think the wide look is more of my style.... So my question is....has anyone taken the front fenders off a fatty and put on a flatty, and cut out the rears as well....i love my conquest the way she drives and interior wise but im feelin the wider look more....just some honest advice to what i wanna do.......thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D_Venable Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 (edited) yes, it's been done... ... In Australia, where widebodies were never sold, to be honest and blunt, it would be less trouble to just buy a widebody and be done with it, and sell the flatty to someone who wants its Edited March 5, 2010 by D_Venable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burton Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 A body shop will want a good $5k to weld on fatty 1/4 panels, install fatty fenders, airdam and rocker skirts, and paint the whole car. If you're close to TX, I can do the whole thing for right around $2500, maybe a little more if I can't find donor 1/4's for a fairly good price. Of course, if your flatty is nice, you could sell it and add $2500 to that cash and probably buy a pretty nice fatty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JYNXTA Posted March 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 yeah that is kinda up there in cost....i do regular paint and minor body work but never welded before....my flatty is in koo shape just wanted the wide look...what r u thoughts about mo.ded fender flares... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burton Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 You could mold something cuatom in with fiberglass, but then you may have to worry about cracking. Personally, I'd just fab up custom flares out of sheet steel, but I know how to weld and do body fabrication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JYNXTA Posted March 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 koo, so would u be able to fab somethin up and ship to me....i kan get them welded where im at, or do u have to make em right onto the kar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burton Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 I really wouldn't feel comfortable puting my name on some custom one-off pieces like that without having the final installation done by myself. If I made some custom flares that needed to be welded in, and your shop butchered up the job, that would make me look bad. Besides, I don't have a flatty here to mock the stuff up on anyway. Sorry. Eventually when I get a flatty to mock stuff up off of, I'd like to produce some body kit pieces to make molds out of and sell parts from. That's a ways down the road tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMeyerhoff Posted March 9, 2010 Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 go crazy starting point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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