What is everyone’s opinion of wide body flares?

72bluNblu said
Um, have either of you priced quarters and enough paint and material to do a set of quarters recently?

A full OE style quarter is $650, for one side. AMD discontinued the skins, and a patch doesn’t cover the whole lip. If you can find a skin from Sherman or Goodmark (out of stock most places) they’re still $250 each, and of course there will be more bodywork. The outer wheelhouses are $200 each.

Even if you did all the work yourself you could be into it a grand just in body panels, and that’s doing it on that cheap. AMD quarters and outer wheelhouses and you’re into it $1800 just in metal.

And if you think you can paint both quarters with decent paint for under $1k in materials you’d be wrong.

So yeah, even doing it all yourself you could easily be into it $2-$3k depending on how much metal and what kind of paint.

These cars are 50 plus years old and thats what it costs. 3000 is a number but its a number that shouldnt hurt that bad. Or should i say it shouldnt be a jaw dropper in 2023. Finding ways of doing it cheap is a plus but what do you end up with in the end? the OP wants to do flares, OK are you going over the rust? Cutting it out? How is he going to do it? If hes keeping the car hell have to address that if hes flipping it its someone elses decision. Its all it is decisions noone is right or wrong it comes down to what a persons vision of the finished car is. MY Dart, in the end will be nice Ill never get out of it what I have in it. I stopped keeping track of what I ve spent for that reason i dont wanna know...:)

CFD244 said
LOL.......Back in '81, I had a buddy that cut the rear fenders of an AMC Gemlin and weld them onto a mint, southern states, 1966 Comet. Man we did some goofy **** back then.

Thats a good idea go to a yard cut some sheet metal use it for patches on something else. If you have the skill thats a low buck source of new metal.