70 Hemi Cuda - OG paint good story
 

Read the story from the original owner. Pretty cool.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/39403851972...diX6uV&vxp=mtr

That's awesome.

K

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Thanks....now that is what I call first hand experience.

Paul

Interesting. But one part sounds a little screwy. How would the tires on a new car hit the fenders, when the car would be one of ?? many built with the same fenders, same suspension, and same wheels and tires? And even if they did hit, why would the factory send that car out to a body shop to be repaired, as opposed to correcting the issue in house? If it was caught at the factory before shipping, then there should not have been any "body" damage from it, and all the factory would have had to do is adjust the fenders or adjust the front suspension/steering. Or even if there was some body or paint damage, I was under the impression that the factories had repair areas for exactly that kind of thing. So that part doesn't make any sense, to me at least.

Awesome car though!

Maybe that was the start of ‘Hemi fender’ fender tags.

Correct Charley, the 15 inch rally wheels and F-60-15 tires on 1970 Hemi E-bodies required a clearanced fender, wheel lips rolled back etc. Assembly line folk probably put the wrong fenders on in Hamtramck (this car may have been part of the learning for that).

Hemis came standard with 15s. Six-Pack and others ordered with 15-inchers as an option got E-60s.

As to why it had to go to an offsite body shop... :confused: dunno

Rolled fender

It was pretty crude

Very interesting. The write up says it came with plain steel wheels and dog-dishes. No wheel or tire related options are shown on the report that is pictured. So would that combo still have had a clearance problem?