I agree, and apologize.

It better since the only thing stock is the side vents or gills.

Dave's Camaro is a work of art. The way you've reworked the rear is awesome! :hail:

There is a lot of nice work on this. Do you have some additional pictures?

Thanks,

Ty

Works of Art!

Very Nice.

Ty

Yes, the OP (Me), was wanting to get some opinions and some discussion (Hopefully) on what is preferred from the people on this forum. The '69 is a unusual car as it was a 1 year only AND had the prominent styling cues as a final refinement of the Generation 1 Cars.

Since it does somewhat depend on the fender differences from the '67 and '68 car to differentiate itself from the two earlier years, how much change and what kind is acceptable to the 69 before it is visually corrupted where some of the people just hate it.

I guess I was looking for a way to Flare/stretch/replace the fenders and get the best of both worlds.

The Camaro's shown in the first post were deliberately shown as representations of both positions of thought.

I do like that the turning radius when lowered is nice and tight, AND you can get some wide ass tires under the front at the same time. That is the "Best of both Worlds", from a strictly utilitarian point of view.

Does the 69 really lose its lines when the bigger flares are put on there given that they are tons easier to do and probably a heck of a lot cheaper?

Thoughts?

I am also looking for the logical evolution of this car when transfered to a more aggressive track oriented use.

Has anyone really ever done a good job with those fake vents, in making them functional for brake cooling or differential/transmission cooling?

If so, who did the best job in your opinion?

Thanks,

Ty

This is going to sound completely off the wall
 

but you could do the widening at the top of the fenders and quaters like the Ring Bro's did on the Mustang at Sema.

You could also, not sure how it would look, add 4 inches in the ceneter of the car down the middle and have new front and back glass mader or use lexan.

widening a camaro down the middle would be a nightmare. Nothing would bolt up anymore. Subframe, rear suspension axle housing, ETC. Plus custom glass would cost a TON of money.

I thinking just widening the fender on top is alot different then the the RB mustang. The mustand can use that, but a 69 Camaro is going to look Goofy. JMHO

you could take the car to a good patternmaking shop and get them to create a plug for fibreglass moulds of these widebody style fenders. Then when you damage them it'd be cheap to replace compaerd to all the work you'd have in steel fenders. I suppose you'd have to come up with something structural at the rear, but the ford puma did it this way

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Ford_Puma.jpg

standard fenders

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...RacingPuma.jpg

widebody fenders

You'd need someone with a good eye to get all the lines right. Is there a clay modelling college anywhere near, you could grab some students for a long weekend to work it out in styling clay.

Used to do a lot of clay modelling it's very quick to do but the final surfaces need lots of practice

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...D5KnEvObEuz2CG

this kind of thing but full size

Agreed, Mustangs have a solid body line that runs the length of the car, whereas the line on the top of the fenders of Camaros disappears part way into the doors. Changing those lines on a Camaro would be tricky, and would change part of what people associate with Camaros. Maybe that is just me, after all, I'm a person that likes flares so long as the exaggerate a cars proportions, while retaining all of the hard lines on the original.

Matt