Fender Spats

JCoop · #1 (**permalink**) 11-01-2007, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Merv and Sharon

Thanks Ray. I was thinking that there may well be a market here for those! Especially when ordering a tonneau. You seem to like the MB's. I hired a car for four months in NY last year and found that gas mileage seemed an afterthought there, but I guess thing are changing now, however. Don't give up the V12 they are a great car.

Merv

Merv, the CL600 is a sweet ride. Smooth, seamless power in an elegant package. Thanks for stopping me. I'm about to take a road trip to Toronto this weekend (10 hr drive) as a goodbye, then I was going to place an ad in the paper as I wanted to buy a couple of Toyota hybrids like the Prius. I know, quite a contrast but my wife Jane and I are really getting concerned about the environment and are starting on a "green" campaign but can't fit that many cars in the 2 garages

PS believe it or not, I get 25mpg highway on the V12.

400TT · #2 (**permalink**) 11-01-2007, 02:37 PM

Ray, just donate to an organisation that will plant some trees for you(or plant them yourself) to offset the carbon emmissions from your cars. The last thing I would be doing is selling the V12.

I can only dream of having a car collection like yours. I do have a Cobra and GT40, just wish one of them was driveable at the moment. But I'm working hard to rectify that.

400TT · #3 (**permalink**) 11-01-2007, 11:07 PM

The trimmer came and had a look at doing the splats for me this morning. Didn't get to catch up with him yesterday.

He said they would be better in leather as the leather will stretch and fit the body better. Vinyl like soft top material etc will not stretch and would look wrinkled. He will add a thin foam backing.

He agreed the best way to do it was attach to the top lift-a-dot, then at bottom have a strap over to the chassis and a snap button there. And then velco up under the guard lip. Thanks to Ray(JCoop) for the original info.

Don't know a price yet. He did say they would be easy. The car goes to him Monday arvo for other interior work, so will get the splats done at the same time and find out a price for doing them separately to give people a ball park idea. I'll also post photos of the finished product.