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vweater1
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Location: LakeView Terrace, California
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 Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:21 pm Post subject: Fiberglass hood & Fender |
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| Does anyone know if where I can get a driver side front fender and a hood made from fiberglass? I just want to get the car rolling already and fix since I got into a fender bener with just damage to those things. Let me know. |
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raru
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.vwinnovations.com/
i know they have type 3 fenders, don't know about hoods though.
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Carson
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Location: Can Nuys,Ca
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:08 pm Post subject: Fiberglass hood and fender |
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Ralph, over at Innovations does have front fenders, but nobody makes a front hood. I've considered producting them at one time but dropped the idea. I do have fiberglass front-ends, and rear fenders.
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R.Rabbit
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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I will galdly trade you my drivers front fiberglass fender on tuesday for an OG Velvet Green metal one 
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Russ Wolfe
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Back in the '70's, my brother and I ran an L-Gas VW drag car. We were using acid dipped fenders to lighten the car. We got it down to under 1000 lbs. Thought we would try fiberglass hood and front fenders. We found when we got them, the weighed more than the steel fenders we were running.
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Carson
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:12 pm Post subject: Fiberglass |
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| Russ Wolfe wrote: |
| Back in the '70's, my brother and I ran an L-Gas VW drag car. We were using acid dipped fenders to lighten the car. We got it down to under 1000 lbs. Thought we would try fiberglass hood and front fenders. We found when we got them, the weighed more than the steel fenders we were running. |
The chopper gun fenders are very heavy, but the handlaid stuff is light. We made some super light hand-laid doors, but at the finish line the door would suck in, so we glassed in some brake lie tubing in a "X" problem solved.
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Notched
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:41 am Post subject: |
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Get with the times! Carbon fiber is where it's at these days!
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Russ Wolfe
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Get with the times! Carbon fiber is where it's at these days! |
Lay me up a carbon fiber FB body, and I might be a player 
http://wj2d.100megsdns.com/ventura.html
Or maybe something like this, to sit on my '71's floor pan.
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