Hi guys, i have been looking for a set of rear wheel moldings for my 67 skylark, i have found a set from a 67 wagon and need to know if they will fit before i have them shipped to me. So can anyone tell me if they will work for me? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Kevin
Not sure if this will help but I did research my 66 Buick parts book and the rear wheel mouldings are definitely different for the Skylark hardtop & convertible vs. the station wagon - probably the same situation with the 67 wagon as well. I would definitely hold off on having them shipped until you get further confirmation from another member who may have the 67 parts book to refer to. Alan R. Broadbent 2700 Oklahoma Street West Melbourne FL 32904 (321) 427-3070 abroadbent@bellsouth.net
They will fit if I recall they are slightly longer so you will have to trim them. has the guy got an extra set????
Thats good to hear, i will be more than happy to do a little trim job for these to work.:TU: Thanks for the good news, i have been looking for these for awhile. The bad news is he only has one set so i cant help you out though sorry.
They will not fit. They are indeed longer, but the quarter panel is shaped different on the wagon than the car. The wagon is rather straight and the car rolls under at the bottom of the quarter panel. You will never bend the stainless to fit the quarter on the car, and that means you would have to cut them off higher on the quarter to get them to lay good on the car quarter. I have some pictures posted on this board in another post, I will look and when I find them I will post the link to the post. The wheel opening is the same until you get to the back bottom of the quarter.
I might listen to this oldtimer, he's had a few hundred cars! And he's OLD, "been there done that" big time! Mine is just one of his "used to have". These rear moldings are really, really hard to find. But they do really look nice too on these 67s. Good luck. Did I mention that he's OLD?:grin:
Well i sure hope this is one time he is wrong If not i guess i will have a set of rear moldings for a 67 wagon for sale lol.
I asked Mike about this too. You might be able to have a good metal worker curve them for you by cutting out a couple of small wedges out of the inner flange and using some heat to reshape them to the wheel well curve. Would take an experienced metal worker though but might be worth the troulble and not too expensive. Good luck. MIke is right, the way they are made they don't bend much at all.
http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=221831 Here is the post that has the pictures of the moldings, one from a wagon and one from a car. The pictures show the difference in length and the different in the shape at the bottom of the quarter panel. Look at the last picture closely, it only compares the contour at the bottom end of the moldings, bottom of the rear of the quarter panels. I don't believe anyone is going to be able to curve the wagon moldings to fit on the car. I believe they would kink because the shape is bent in all directions, and you want to move it about 2-3 inches in one direction. It just is not going to happen. The molding will kink and be ruined. I understand you have already bought them, maybe you could hold them in position on the car and try to massage them BEFORE you cut them up. I believe if you do that you will see they will kink and be ruined trying to make them work. With a big enough hammer things can be made to work, but how are they actually look all bent and kinked, screwed onto your car? I would never do that with a rare set of wagon moldings, those are very hard to find also. I have some damaged moldings. I could send you some pictures and let you see if you think they could be repaired well enough for you to use them on your car. By the way, there are moldings around for your car. There are some stashed in peoples parts reserves who belong to this board. If you ask often enough you may be able to get them to make you a price on them, but it may not be cheap.
Thanks guys for all your input. I do have the wagon moldings being shipped already so i will just take a look at them. If they dont work i will not ruin them tryin to force them to, i'll just try to get my money back out of them and keep on looking. Thats half the fun to me anyway is the search and the feeling once you do score something thats tuff to find. Again much thanks for the help. Kevin
I have been told that Skylarks never came with rear wheel well mouldings. They all came with skirts. Some Specials came with rear wheel well mouldings as did the wagons.
Told you MIke knows this stuff. I would ad that I worked in a steel mill that rolled stainless steel. It takes a lot more heat to permanately bend it also. It its way more springy than regular steel even at elevated temperatures. Like I said it might work, but would take a skilled metal worker that could heat it and have some fixtures that would help contour it while very hot. Or cut it into pieces, weld it back to gether, grind, repolish, etc. Could be expensive.
