I had the same retractables on my '80 Spitfire, but if I recall correctly
there is a doubler (ie a slab of metal) with a thru-hole in it on the inner
part of the wheel well re-inforce the sheet metal (which is slightly
strengthened by being curved in the first place, by the way). I don't know
if some PO put the doubler there or if it was orig (the car was free
(which, as a great man once wrote in a PDLJMPR article, is better than
cheap, right FC?), and had a checkered past filled with some real talented
do-it-yourselfers, like the genius who duct-taped a leak in a hydraulic
line). There's no provisions at all for anything on the wheel well on my
Bugeye. Where did those with non-inertia type belts mount to? Wheelwell or
elsewhere?.
Ron Soave
'61 Bugeye
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