The Chevrolet has rear fender skirts and the factory radio.
All that surfaces of the actual '49 Ford is the slab side and fender skirts.
It dutifully wore the classic swooping fender skirts and front-fender light, and the Chief's lines were generally there.
Outside, the car wears three horizontal bands of gleaming chrome accents, wide whitewall tires and come-hither fender skirts.
Put aside the question of whether those models were male (as in longer, lower and wider, Dr. Freud) or female (as in fender skirts, curvy belt lines and, of course, headlights).
It bears a passing resemblance to a Silverado pickup, though the hood is high and prominent and the wheel wells are flattened, as if fitted with 50's-style fender skirts.
The cars that led the procession were probably from either 1975 or 1976, according to Gregg D. Merksamer, who observed on the forum that "the full, rear fender skirts and the five heavy vertical bars separating the grille into six sections" were marks of those years that disappeared from later models.
The modifications included a body-colored radiator cowl and headlamp pods, raked windshield, relocation of the side-mounted spare tires to a double-deck "continental kit" at the rear, rear fender skirts, chrome side pipe exhausts (with a driver-controlled bypass lever) and a handsome, stowable convertible top.
It also features Indian's signature deep fender skirts and abundant chrome highlights.
Accented against the black wheels and fender skirts, the mustardy yellow proved popular — especially the interior dashboard and door panels, accented by black sport striping, which call to mind the era when we all met the Beetles.
Add-on parts like bumpers, hoods, fenders, side skirts and spoilers are usually made of plastic, but they may also come in fiberglass or metal.
