When mildly tubbing a Model A tudor and still wanting to keep rear fenders, would you keep the portion of the factory wheel well where the fender bolts up to...like in the pic? Removing this section would make sense, but would then require major reworking of the fenders to be able to mount to the body again. Would the fenders even hold their shape after the flange is removed? Any thoughts?
I did a slight tub exactly as you described to a 28 sedan a couple decades ago. I just put a fold on the bottom edge and ran the inner panel straight up from the subframe. I put a 90 on a long strip and shrunk the edge to the curve of the flange pointing down. That’s the top piece of the tub. The hardest part (not very hard really) was welding the top of the tub to the flange. I recommend having the fender bolted on and making a lot of tacks inside, then unbolting the fender and welding the corner edge. Plug welds hold the top of the tub to the new inner panel.
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