Hey guys,
I did this for the 69stang.com forum but figured it would be useful here as well. Had some time off and visited Maier Racing today, it was a good trip. Here's what I found out:
1. They make a '69-70 Shelby-style coupe/convertible trunk lid and extensions with the cutout for the honeycomb. You would just have to fill that in. Apparently there is a long backorder list for the Tony Branda deck lids and so these guys would probably ship sooner. No idea on difference in quality but Maier's stuff looked good to an amateur. See hood pic.
2. Saw the "Extreme" trunk lid as I'll call it and it is indeed extreme. I had a talk with David there about it, great guy, very informative. He mentioned that there was a bit of smoothing out required to get it to match up with the '70 rear qtr. panel. He also said you could cut it down and then just lay up fiberglass over the lip and recommended trying out a fiberglass kit from home depot to get some experience.
3. David seemed to think it would be less work to reshape the Extreme lid than to lay all that fiberglass and/or Bondo in the Shelby trunk lid, but I wonder if there is an easier way to fill it and then bondo over that. But Pakrat, if you wanted to order the Shelby trunk they could ship it out right away it looks like.
4. The Cougar Eliminator style hood is the way I'm going to go. It looked real nice. No cowl hood, no 429 hood for me, the Cougar is the way to go. I might do the valance panel w/spoiler. Is valance panel the right term? Both of those should shave a little weight off the front and I'll keep the original panel and hood and maybe restore those.
5. The epoxy stinks! I could smell it in the car all the way back.
6. Their subframe connectors don't work on convertibles and they were used by Overhaulin' on their Rustang.
Here's the pix:
http://homepage.mac.com/jbauder/PhotoAlbum61.html
Maier Racing:
http://www.maierracing.com
Phone - talk to David. 510-581-7600, fax 510-581-2406
I did this for the 69stang.com forum but figured it would be useful here as well. Had some time off and visited Maier Racing today, it was a good trip. Here's what I found out:
1. They make a '69-70 Shelby-style coupe/convertible trunk lid and extensions with the cutout for the honeycomb. You would just have to fill that in. Apparently there is a long backorder list for the Tony Branda deck lids and so these guys would probably ship sooner. No idea on difference in quality but Maier's stuff looked good to an amateur. See hood pic.
2. Saw the "Extreme" trunk lid as I'll call it and it is indeed extreme. I had a talk with David there about it, great guy, very informative. He mentioned that there was a bit of smoothing out required to get it to match up with the '70 rear qtr. panel. He also said you could cut it down and then just lay up fiberglass over the lip and recommended trying out a fiberglass kit from home depot to get some experience.
3. David seemed to think it would be less work to reshape the Extreme lid than to lay all that fiberglass and/or Bondo in the Shelby trunk lid, but I wonder if there is an easier way to fill it and then bondo over that. But Pakrat, if you wanted to order the Shelby trunk they could ship it out right away it looks like.
4. The Cougar Eliminator style hood is the way I'm going to go. It looked real nice. No cowl hood, no 429 hood for me, the Cougar is the way to go. I might do the valance panel w/spoiler. Is valance panel the right term? Both of those should shave a little weight off the front and I'll keep the original panel and hood and maybe restore those.
5. The epoxy stinks! I could smell it in the car all the way back.
6. Their subframe connectors don't work on convertibles and they were used by Overhaulin' on their Rustang.
Here's the pix:
http://homepage.mac.com/jbauder/PhotoAlbum61.html
Maier Racing:
http://www.maierracing.com
Phone - talk to David. 510-581-7600, fax 510-581-2406
