From: <ZoboHerald@aol.com>
> Presumably you're too young to have seen many late 1940s and 1950s
American
> cars on which "skirts" abounded.
Many British cars also had "fender skirts" as the Yanks called them.
Jaguar XK-1_0 cars had them. They did not fit if the car had wire wheels as
the Rudge cap extended too far. They fit on cars with stamped-steel wheels.
As I recall, the Lotus Six cars also had full skirts on the rear wheels.
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa 65/2597, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 TR4 CT2846L
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