Eharrison

Trying to figure out these flares. I like the look of the rear. I'm assuming there's no flare in front? Thanks for the help!

whalebird

look to me like RS flares, thus the RS rear bumper. Early cars do look good with a "standard" front valence as opposed to an S spoiler. The wide 16", brushed aluminium fuchs sans the center caps means business, and that car is getting pretty low. Looks bad-*** in my opinion.

Eharrison

Hence my purchase yesterday!

Thanks for the info!

Amber Gramps

Ed, this is your new ride your signature suggests you have??? Sweet!

Any weld lines underneath? All metal?

Eharrison

Not yet Doug, in a few years it'll look similar-ish.

race911

RS or SC, who's got the eagle eye to tell? I suppose I could go into the trailer and look at the '73 shell.

When did the last of the OE RS flares disappear?

MUSSBERGER

I like it.

rusnak

I was assuming they were RS flares because an SC has impact bumpers? I didn't want to ask and seem stupid, lol.

Eharrison

On the coupe? Yeah if you can do that it would be great!

So OE and replicas are a world apart?

race911

Doesn't matter on the trailing edge. It's all about the roundness (or not) across the flare and in profile. Or so I seem to remember. Any of the real experts, feel free to correct me as it's literally been decades since I've flared a car.

I don't know of any RS replica flares. But, as above, there could be players in the market during the time I've ceased to pay attention.

What irked me on any of the 930 replica flares I used to use was the inconsistency. Amazingly, this guy out of San Diego (Vista, actually) had a brother-in-law with a sheetmetal factory down in Mexico, and their knockoff slope fender and turbo flares were actually pretty good. The LA stuff? Not so much. So if I was doing a car to order I'd always convince the guy to use OE.

I believe all the SC flares (in reality, the '74-5 Carrera, Carrera 3.0, SC, '84-'89 Carrera, '90-'94 964 profile) were OE. Of course the '87-9 and 964 units were different in the torsion bar hole area (nonexistent for 964, and you probably needed to buy a whole 964 quarter).

Eharrison

Well that sounds easy enough............

Brett San Diego

There is a flare in front on that car compared to '68 and earlier. '68 and earlier had just a tiny lip at the fender. '69 started the familiar flared profile that continued to '89.

whalebird

The RS flares have a different profile for sure. The commonly used "SC" flare always stands out as it has a distinct (to me) flat/vertical lip. The difference is subtle and the angle of the car posted leaves a bit of speculation on the table. Some have been known to modify SC flares to resemble RS flares.
Steel is the only way to go if welded properly.

CT Mike

Really shows how a lower car looks more agressive too.

Ed Hughes

I vote that they are ST flares.