Both of my fender skirts hang about 1/4" low at the rear, and the mouldings don't line up with the ones on the quarter panel. Is there any fix or adjustment?
I am going by memory but I think you said the car has had quarter panel rust repair? If so, the issue you have is very typical of a Grande Parisienne that had the wheel openings worked on. It seems very few body guys keep test fitting the skirt as they are doing the repair. If you start looking around online at pictures of 1966 Grande Parisienne 2 door hardtops you will find most of them have the skirt fitting too low in the back. I've never tried to improve it on any of the cars I've had that were repaired but maybe if you can alter that bracket or possibly find a thinner rubber seal between the skirt and the 1/4 panel you could take up some of that space? The other thing might be if there is a way to trim a little bit off the moulding clip or actually slot the hole that the clip sits in so that just the moulding is up a bit? Of course none of these things are the proper solution, that being the proper alteration to the wheel opening back to its original shape.
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1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
If you took it to an old-time body shop they would repair the wheel lip with a block of wood and a mallet, provided there was no skim coat. Yikes! The paint damage becomes the next can they kick down the road.
I think Carl gave a good answer.
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I'll see if the bracket or seal can make a difference. I hadn't thought of the clip hole repositioning, as a last resort: or even bending the clip studs (except for the forward one) so the moulding rides a bit higher
