Differences in measurements on the rear?

Today I saw a MK1 and noticed a difference on rear left and rear right side, the left side cover more tire than the right. Is this is normal?

Pretty normal that - hand made cars and all that!
The whole rear clip on most cars sits to one side at the back.
Other oddities include one headlamp higher than the other!

PDub said:

Pretty normal that - hand made cars and all that!
The whole rear clip on most cars sits to one side at the back.
Other oddities include one headlamp higher than the other!

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The headlamp thing is a sign that the front clip was copied from an original Specialized Mouldings part. Peter Thorpe (Safir Engineering) showed me years ago how to ID an original/original copy, and that is one of the clues.

The rear clip space to tires is controlled by the adjustment of the clip. Even adjusted perfectly there can be a difference but that can be minimized with proper adjustment.

Unlike cars of today where only half of the car is designed in Clay, then digitized and the other half is mirror imaged by the CAD operator, cars from the Sixties were made from a full size Clay where the side was made in Clay and the other half was duplicated in Clay, sometimes by a different Clay Modeler! It is not uncommon for one side of the car to be up to 1/4 inch longer than the other side of the car!



Darnel