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Rear quater wheel well change to round opening like GTS?

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Old 09-15-2011, 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by sweet928
I missed this one. Do you have more pictures of this car?
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Old 09-15-2011, 11:45 PM
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Originally Posted by neilh
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Nice! Where's the line between the panels? Is that the picture or is the rear clip blended into the quarters?
Old 09-16-2011, 01:05 AM
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Nicole, you always use the one worst possible round wheel arch example in existence. I think that white car has 14" wheels made to look like an early Countach or something. The Strosek Ultra has almost perfectly round wheel arches, and is probably the best looking 928 variant ever made (when retaining the stock headlights).

http://www.porsche928.net/history/st...ltra_1993.html
http://www.porsche928.net/history/st...ltra_2003.html

The fenders on those models look orders of magnitude better than the stock early rear fenders. Porsche *almost* got it right with the GTS.

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Old 09-16-2011, 02:23 AM
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Strosek shifted a lot of proportions of the car - more than what's obvious to the casual observer. And he lowered the cars signifcantly, too!

Koenig made the arches rounder, but broke-up surfaces with mock air intakes and louvers. Again, the proportions were shifted dramatically.

I don't want to bash Neil's car, as it is a well-kept and unique example of a customized 928. But if you take a close look, the rear quarter modification makes the car look tail heavy.



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