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Minitubs and impacts to fiberglass side panels?

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I'm replacing the entire back half of my 70 fastback and am considering going with the dynacorn/goodmark minitubs.  Not a fan of the MTF look (sorry) since it looks like a trailer fender, and not sure I want to go DSE with that big of a frame mod so I'm looking at the dynacorn ones.  Has anyone installed these (latoracing?) and if you have, what impacts to the factory interior have you dealt with?  I seem to find lots of posts with people doing the tubs but never seem to cover what was done with the interior.  Rather than jumping in now and having an "oh $shit" moment when it came to the interior, I figured I'd ask the masses and plan ahead. 

 

I know the fiberglass panels bolt to a tab welded to the inner wheelhouse and that tab is about 5/8" wide, so mini tubs would impact that. I'm not afraid of narrowing the rear seat, which an upholsterer could probably narrow the seat covers relatively easily and cutting/rewelding the seat frame wouldn't be that bad.  Its more the fiberglass panels that I'm concerned with. 

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A friend with a 70 fastback wanted more tire but did not want to modify the back seat.

he simply marked where the fiberglass panels sat and came in that amount and doing the pie cut in the front .

he also removed the bracing inside those panels so the fiberglass sat right on the tub

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