INSIDE OUT..

I had a crazy idea that I could shape my rear inner fenders. (owning a english wheel and a power hammer gives you those silly thoughts)

of course, I would only build inner fenders because the stockers I had found were so expensive.. that I just couldn't justify the cost. Even if they were "worth it"

Given that I have a few extra 40 ford parts.. I went to the stash today to see what I could come up with.

heres were it started

a few years ago.. I bought these stock inner "coupe" rear wheel houses

this one came back from the sandblaster in pretty poor condition. ..

my wife helped me mark it, and then we used the plasma cutter to trim it.
had this inner fender been in better shape.. I might have used a pair of these (rather than have progressed to attempt #2


given that this inner fender looked like it may have worked..
I got this crazy idea that perhaps one of the spare rear stock 40 coupe fenders I had might work even better..


a few minutes of figuring, trimming, and viola..




the driver side worked well.. but I quickly realized that the passenger side could be done with less trimming..



dont let the fenders fool you.. both were ROUGH.. at the front and rear edges (toward the bottom) as such.. both were really only good enough for this particular application..

currently they are "clamped in place" next I'll work on bolting them into my subfloor, and screwing them into the wood. Following this process I will hopefully be able to assemble the rear fenders onto the car with the running boards and finish the repairs to the outers..

soon we might just have a complete floor!