Saddletan

I asked Speedy K about these flares and he said guys would cut them up and widen them back in the day. They weren't made this big like TC says.

TCracingCA

But nothing that big! These units are like an aberration of the idea! They look like Arnold In his body building days compared to a typical athlete!

I am an ex surfer doing fiberglass ( I still have my favorite board) and I would be hard pressed to create these type of units without some failed attempts!

I do honestly want the OP guy to have success and I have had A local Corvette outfit attempt to bribe me with offers for molding just my hood 15 years ago of $3500 in parts credit! I declined that!

The foam method was shared because I want to help the guy! So you first buy these blocks and you use long pins to hold the foam together while the glue is setting! Usually heat up the first foam block with a heat gun to soften it an keep pushing it up to the stock fender till you are close to an inner shape! This wIll deform the outward side some! Then with your car up off of the ground, cut a radius from the stock and mount your tire rim combo and without the stock fender cut, it might be laying on the tire! Make sure you put it back down on the ground for the top shaping! But the glue the blocks on outward till you have smoke material to shape! Then I saw saw the tire clearance and jack it up and shape the underside! Then move to the top and contour it down to the flare width using the caliber a to keep checking material thickness! If you have a thumper type shape, I would say you could take the front Pacifica sold flare and pin that to the last foam block and shape to that and shape to your body contour! Then lay on your fiberglass!
Ps I do not like to sand on big globs of Fiberglas and breath it and itch for a week, so I have done the foam! Hey also guys, you shape your surfboard foam shape and then lay on the glass is how you do that too!

Poorhousenext

TCRacing has been collecting body mod parts that others lost interest in years ago, part most deemed outrageous or ugly on a C2 as timed passed. These parts or/were part of the History of C2 racing back in the day, or still with people who plan to Vintage Race a C2 or build a Vintage Race look C2 to just drive so they will never have to worry about having another C2 parked near them, just to be different.

The last part of above statement is why I build modified body C2 unlike anything I've seen past or present, yet the mods are based off past Flared C2 cars, and what I disliked about their look. There are no molds or parts out there to make copies of, we have to cut/splice and cut again or Bondo sculpt to try and to recreate an allusion the body is stock when first looking at car, that it's just a lower front fender change, even though the fenders/quarters are flared 2.5" or 3.0".

It's really easy to do this as 99% of C2 owners, much less other model Corvette owners pay little are no attention to a C2 body when they looking around. Engine compartment and interior are what they look at, unless the body is modified with outrageous body mods shown here as well as the thread TC explained the history of behind C2 flares while back. Thanks to Brian H. for making them cool again to some of you...LOL

You can pay to have those parts recreated by a good Customizing Shop, yet you ask TC to devalue some of the parts he's collected over the years by making you parts off his collections or loaning you his parts so you can replicate them. So rather that a very, very few C2 still around with those outrageous flares, there becomes a few hundred out there. Please understand his point of view, from a History point of view at the least. Rare is better, as it's about what owners did in the past to make a C2 competitive Racing wise in that era in time rather than us trying to make our C2 different from others in the present/today.

Saddletan

Here you go.

http://www.gtscustoms.com/parts.html

327Heaven

These flares on #20 are nicely done and would be a strong contender for what I am looking for. Any further info on this car?

Saddletan

This one needed bigger taller tires. I've seen pics of this one wrecked.
The #20 must be auto crossing somewhere.

rfn026

I'm voting in favor of car 498. I like those.

I'm not big on street flares. A Corvette needs provenance to have really big flares.

Richard Newton
When is a Restoration Done?

wmf62

thanks...

need something similar for the front too...
Bill

Saddletan

It's surprising how much more front tire/wheel a C1 body can take compared to a C2 under stock glass. like an 8 1/2 x 15.

Saddletan

What's not to like about Viper size meats on a Midyear? Don't know if it has provenance, is that French?

327Heaven

Nicely done mods

gleninsandiego

Here are some I was told were put on my car
decades ago

cv67

#65 looks awesome. Hey who doesnt like a stocker but come on those flares, tires stance give these cars a big middle finger attitude, love it!

Saddletan

Eye Candy! Name that turn.

TCracingCA

And one of the last guys to actually campaign a C2 in SCCA racing! I wrote about that guy and car briefly in the Southern California guys remember thread!

Rickenbach

Drool.

Saddletan

Yes Larry and Mike Meeks had cars that were well suited to tight Sears Point. Looks different without the billboards and garages.
This pic from Super Chevy Mag says Mary Pozzi, tribute to Larry Park. I might have seen this 64 or maybe 63, run at the Pleasanton fairgrounds in 1987. Beautiful photo at Crows Landing.

RJ1

Saddletan I purchased my car see # 81 white above post 11 from Norcal. Bought it from Steve Barber. It spent a lot of time at Sears Point before I brought it down to Yorba Linda. Did you know the car back then?

Saddletan

I don't recognize that cage. But I'm far from an authority on the subject. I'm thinking that TC would be the one to ask. Do you still have the car?

RJ1

Like most of these cars from that era I went back to stock fenders. Then I sold the car at auction as a vintage race car at a Palms Springs VARA event. Car brought a lot more money with vintage look since almost all the vintage sanctioning bodies require stock street tires from the 60's. No big wide slicks at VARA. The car is still a vintage racer.