Anyone know where you can purchase a fibergl*** frontend for a 55? I've looked all over the net and came up empty handed. Some help would be much appreciated.
There was a guy making the fenders a few years ago but I'm not sure if he's making them anymore. I don't think a one piece fibergl*** front was ever offered.
I've talked to Showcars Bodyparts about one for my '56 but haven't pulled the trigger yet: http://www.showcars-bodyparts.com/ford55up.html I think his quote was about $1500 or so shipped to me in MI. I read somewhere on the main board that folks have had varying success with their stuff, the pictures I saw of the front end on the website looked pretty good I thought...
Yep NO luck with any fibergl*** frontend parts so far...... The showcars body parts seems to like to rip people off. There is atleast 4 complaints to the BBB about them not shipping peoples parts. Can anyone think of anyone else make front fenders, or a tilt?
from an old CVA magazine. www.fairlanecompanymi.com 248-676-9293 ****ord Mi. 48381 Looks like the link doesn't work I'll try the phone number on Monday.
That company is no more, but one of the guys was still making parts on a smaller scale, at least he was around a year ago when I was looking into parts. He was at thefairlaneguy at peoplepc.com and he gave me his phone # which I PM'd you...
Well I got in touch with thefairlaneguy, he is not making any parts till atleast march of next year. Wow this is gonna set me back!
I was going to have a one piece front end made for my old '53 drag car. I asked here to see if anyone else wanted one, but there wasn't much interest. I found a guy advertising on CL for doing boat fibergl*** work and asked if he'd be able to handle it. Luckily he was also a gearhead and made alot of fibergl*** parts for his camaro race car, so he offered to do a 1-piece nose for me for $700. If it's a race car, you can get a 55 chevy 1-piece nose, and modify it to look more like a Ford.
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