quote:Originally posted by DeTom:quote:Originally posted by Charlie McCall:
But i think the key is that Mark says that his car has riveted fender flares, which is an indication that it is not a GT5. GT5's have the fiberglass flares attached, um, I'm not really sure how but you can't see rivets! It is a smooth junction with a bead of sealant or something running along the joint. The riveted flares were the GT4/GTS look.
He'd need to check with the previous owners to find out what the story is, but I'm inclined to agree with Franz and others that it began life as a GTS and was converted later.
I also agree that none of this really matters - congratulations on a cool car!
OK, Charlie, here is a weird thing, I have a 73 europeon GTS and it has fiberglass flairs, BUT you can't see any signs of a rivet. If they are there under the paint, they must be aluminum because a magnet won't stick to the flairs at all. BUT it will stick to the inside of the flairs!! That is almost like a holloween mystery. I don't know how they did that.
Good question. I just know that the factory GT5 cars don't have visible rivets (which I guess is what I should have said) while the GTS and GT/4 cars had flares with the rivets plainly visible.
So I have no idea what the story is with your GTS... But everyone loves a mystery!