let it begin! :lol:

depends... I think they'd be pretty good on a daily, but if you're trying to keep it correct then 😳

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You can pick up decent genuine 60's wings pretty cheaply, I got a good (ish) set of '66 wings for £90.

Although the days ones are good (ive seen some before paint, they are nice) I would prefer original steel. There is however something to be said for new with no filler, over old with lots of filler/dings/lead etc.

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ah very good, fancy selling me those 66 wings 😉

Nope, they are on the car. The fronts are very good, but the backs are a bit worse. They are comparable in shape to oval era wings, albeit not so defined.

They are truly excellent to normal veng new metal ones.

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Hi

I decided to fit Day Moulding wings to my 65 they are very good, however if I could get some NOS wings then I would fit them instead. Or would I? As a matter of interest where can you get good wings without getting robbed. I have a pair of NOS Bosch 6 volt yellow fog lamps, the problem is if I fit them they will not be NOS. Same with the wings:(

hmmmm

thanks for the comments.

I have only ever heard good things about the day wings,

BUT I would never personally have fibreglass body panels on a daily used car which should be metal.
I wrote off my first daily car while at college, a morris traveller, that had fibreglass front wings fitted, in the crash the wings offered no resistance and ended up as broken pieces all over the road. It was only the strength of the og bonnet that had bent up into a ^ and the rest of the og metal that stopped the steering wheel from being embedded deeper into my chest than it was. The front end of the car was completely concertina'd up and destroyed.

However I would also have to be honest and say that nowadays most of our old hobby cars dont have seatbelts anyway! :lol:
But then I dont use them daily ( ok hardly ever :lol:)

Also I prefer repaired og wings over anything else. Sometimes you just have to pay someone clever a day's labour per wing to do it. Many people balk at the price of good og wings but there is an obvious reason for their price..they are thicker and better than all the alternatives!! and getting very thin on the ground!
I find it funny that everyone moans about the price of old wings when I have paid more £ to have my wings repaired than some people would want to even pay for good used.

I am baffled as to why just repairing the old ones is not even considered by most people. The edges are fiddly but its not brain surgery either. Personally I still think it is well worth paying £100-150 worth work per wing to keep your originals.

(you just have to find someone good enough to do them, who ideally works from home to reduce costs)

Most split bug people just know that repairing is the only option available.
Whilst up until now, 60's and even oval owners have been relatively spoilt by comparison, with the availability of good used wings at sensible prices.
But those days are almost over. Bonnets are in the same boat.

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ive been considering a set of these but agree that id prefer correct metal of possible

bonnets are indeed getting valuable though

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Can the words Day mouldings and Stocker be used in the same sentence??
It is surely a contradiction in terms.:wink: