mini wide body (Page 2/20) Rick Morehouse JAN 15, 08:43 PM COOL Man, looks great. Can dig the art work on the shop walls too, resembles some of mine. The rear spoiler is sharp, sorta a dated style, but still sharp. bjc 350 JAN 16, 12:37 AM I know the spoilers a little dated, but so is the car and so am I. It does go pretty good with the car styling, I think. GBglide JAN 16, 09:50 PM I Googled 1959 Cadillac tail lights. How are you gonna make that look right with a car like a Fiero? bjc 350 JAN 16, 11:24 PM Notice, I said, "This may be a little over the top for this car, we will see." I'm not sure either, but I'm going to mock them up and see if I like it . bjc 350 JAN 18, 11:40 PM I finally finsihed the rear air dam structure. Lots of coats of bondo on top of the fglass and way too much sanding. Pretty near final finish. You can't see it, but I spent about 2 hours with a razor blade scraper taking off the peeling clear coat on the engine cover. Then I went to the hood and removed a coat of primer,color, and clearcoat, all with the razor blade scraper. Whoever repainted this car did not get much of a bond. Hope it doesn't come back to haunt me after the next repaint. Attached are a few pictures of the air dam. bjc 350 JAN 25, 11:04 PM A little more progress. Since the rear fenders are an inch wider, the rear bumper cover has to be stretched out as well. Because of that the wheel well liners are being extended to fill the opening. I also removed the GT bumper emblem and flushed the reflectors to the front of the opening. I never have figured out why GM buried the reflectors deep inside the bumper. Lots of hours of work, but not a lot to show for it! The 1/4 panel in front of the wheel flares out an inch also, so the aero rocker had to be cut and opened out to match the 1/4. I may modify the rockers further once I get everything to fit, but I'm worried that anything I use to modify them may pop loose with time. bjc 350 JAN 29, 01:21 AM I've made some progress on the rear light panel. I thought trying a concave panel would be different than most I've seen. It follows the same curve as end of the rear quarter panel.I would have liked to make the curve a little deeper, [it actually is deeper than it looks in the pictures] but did not want to remove the mounts for the stock tail lights. That way they can be used again, if I hate this setup. The intent is to install 59 Cadillac tail lights, three each side, partly recessed into frenching tubes.I'll show pictures as soon as I can get to making them up. I hope to add light sequencers if I can figure everything out. The backups will have to go in the bumper or perhaps an LED strip in the edge of the air dam. I still work two days a week, so work gets in the way just when I get going. Doesn't look like a lot , yet! Here are a few pics of what I have so far. The foam will be glassed after final fit. bjc 350 FEB 10, 08:25 PM Wow-almost two weeks of fiddleing with the tail light panel and only about 1/2 done. Anyway, I thought I'd post a few pictures of the concept of '59 Caddy tail lights. The pictures will give an idea of how it will look when complete. The frenching tubes are not complete or adhered to the panel as of yet, but you can get the idea. The lights will likely be recessed further into the tubes, but setting them too far into the panel may prevent the panel from being installed/removed. bjc 350 FEB 15, 11:57 PM I finally have the frenching tubes ( ABS pipe fittings) built, profiled to the lighing panel and glued to the lighting panel. They will be painted silver inside. I had to install the lights in order to align them with each other. I pretty sure this is not everone's cup of tea, but after all the work it has taken, I will go ahead and final finish the panel and then try to figure out the wiring along with adding a sequencer setup. Here are a few pictures showing how they will look. turbodad FEB 16, 12:11 AM I realize this is your car......but.......really??? I once heard a famous quote about scientist which went something like" the thing we sholud ask ourselves is not IF we can do somethings but SHOULD we do somethings"