need some rear wheel well help

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need some rear wheel well help

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Wondering if someone has some pics of the area that I am working on. Its the front of the rear wheelwell. The outer wheelwell in not attached yet and was wondering what the area should look like. Also missing is the end rail bracket that attaches to the wheelwell. I have the wheelwells and can easily fashion a bracket.
So, why dont I just look on the other side to see how that looks, I have the exact same thing happening on the other side. Its as if they inverted a photo. Identical.
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manoa matt
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Your car is a: 1978 Fiat 124 Spider 1800
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

Re: need some rear wheel well help

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I still got a big hunk of my "Hawaiian Rickshaw" there may be a good picture of the area still left. I'll check tonight.

If you got the red Fiat 124 abarth and spider book it shows some pretty good drawings of how the panels go together, there is a lot more to the spider body than you would think. I'll also check that too.
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engineerted
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Your car is a: 1974 124 spider
Location: Farmington Hills, MI

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Pope, this might help

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1978 124 Spider, Complete Restoration
1974 Fiat 124 F Production Race car
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Re: need some rear wheel well help

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Ted those pics help tremendously. Question I still have is, the outer fender well replacements dont come with the middle fold-over seam that is standard on the car. Unfortunately that portion rusted long ago and is missing on the first foot of the door side of the well. I can reconstruct that portion easily, but how is the wheel-well held on when it comes to the frame portion. Just build an L shaped bracket for it to weld to?


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