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<blockquote data-quote="XFIRE82" data-source="post: 167230" data-attributes="member: 2292"><p>GM called them a wheel carrier , but the name commonly used was continental kit . The same center section was used in 57 and 58, just bolt on the end pieces of the bumper for the year. This was the nicest and best design of all the coni kits ever offered my opinion. Some car makers had the whole bumper just extended back about a foot with a flat filler panel between the body and bumper and just the wheel stood up in it, they didn't look good. This 57 / 58 design looked classy and to gain access into the trunk you simply lifted up the lever on the side and the wheel tilted back and you could get stuff in and out of the trunk much easier. After I built my convertible the first year I had just the stock bumper with 6 '59 cadillac tail lights . I looked at it and hmmm, I have a original coni kit on a parts car and thought they are abit ugly but sitting between those long cadillac bullets it may be not bad, so I chromed the 9 pieces that made up the kit and put it on .</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]27960[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="XFIRE82, post: 167230, member: 2292"] GM called them a wheel carrier , but the name commonly used was continental kit . The same center section was used in 57 and 58, just bolt on the end pieces of the bumper for the year. This was the nicest and best design of all the coni kits ever offered my opinion. Some car makers had the whole bumper just extended back about a foot with a flat filler panel between the body and bumper and just the wheel stood up in it, they didn't look good. This 57 / 58 design looked classy and to gain access into the trunk you simply lifted up the lever on the side and the wheel tilted back and you could get stuff in and out of the trunk much easier. After I built my convertible the first year I had just the stock bumper with 6 '59 cadillac tail lights . I looked at it and hmmm, I have a original coni kit on a parts car and thought they are abit ugly but sitting between those long cadillac bullets it may be not bad, so I chromed the 9 pieces that made up the kit and put it on . [ATTACH type="full"]27960[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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