WTB Driver side REAR Flat Top Fender for 1915 or 1916 Touring

[GatorsModelT]

WTB Driver side REAR Fender for 1915 or 1916 ONLY. A curved fender that is flat on the top with no crown between the beads. I need it for a Touring Car.
Contact Gator Gould, Monroeville, AL. Email me here on Forum.

[Allan]

Gator, you should know the driver can be on either side of the car since your trips down under?

Allan from down under

[GatorsModelT]

Ha ha ha!! Hi, Allan hope you both are well!!

What's new!?!

[Allan]

I have a new Nordic recliner chair.
Allan from down under.

[Altair]

I am not aware of a flat top fender for a 15 I have a 15 and the fenders are rounded, both ways. A 14 had a flat top rear fender. There may have been some early parts carry over? They did carry over the carbide headlights on some early 15s and some of the cowl lamps. Parts carry over was a common practice.

[RajoRacer]

Gator stated "A curved fender that is flat on the top with no crown between the beads".

[Altair]

I still don't know of a curved rear fender with a flat top for a 15? Please show a photo.

[Wayne Sheldon]

A lot of people do not notice the "flat curve" of the 1915/'16 Ford rear fenders. Except for that "curved flatness", the look almost just like the 1917 into 1924 common touring car rear fenders. A lot of people restoring (or back-dating?) 1915s or 1916s aren't aware of or don't care enough and use the later rear fenders on their late brass model Ts.
The difference in the sheet metal doesn't show up well in photos. And I at the moment do not have any photos to share anyway.
There are three variants of the 1915/'16 common rear fender, all with the same "flat curve". The true 1915 has a three rivet mounting bracket near the top of the curve, very similar to the common three revet bracket used on the 1915/'16 front fenders. Those fenders, anchored only by the three rivets in sheet metal and the running board shook and began breaking quickly. So, late in calendar 1915 (basically beginning 1916 model year?), Ford changed the mounting bracket to a large and more robust bracket using four rivets near the top of the curve, plus two smaller rivets in the outer bead and two more in the inner skirt of the fender. Going from three rivets to eight rivets solved the breakage problem.
Later in 1916, Ford eliminated two of the four "top of the flat curve" rivets, but continued the four in the outer bead and inner skirt for a total of six rivets which continued through the "crowned curve" until the end of the style late in 1925.

Altair, What rear fenders does your 1915 Canadian touring have? On that detail, I believe your Canadian T should be the same as the US Ts.

It should also be noted, that after about June of 1916, SOME model Ts apparently were getting the crowned rear fenders. Probably because the factory was running short on the "flat curved" rear fenders, and because the new ones were coming in to the factory and who was really going to care about that minor detail on a new Ford.

[Erik Johnson]

Simple explanation:

U.S. production

"Crowned" means higher in the center and lower at the edges. For example, paved streets are typically crowned for good drainage, so water flows from the center to the edges of the street and into the gutter.

1915-16 rear fenders have a flat profile (a flat cross-section), not crowned a profile (not a curved or crowned cross-section). Click on this link to see examples of 1915 and 1916 flat rear fenders:

https://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/4 ... 1394239958

Starting with the 1917 model year, the front and rear fenders are crowned (they have a curved or crowned cross-section). Click on this link to see a set of NOS 1917-25 rear fender that I sold a few years ago.

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=36903&p=285374&hili ... rs#p285374

[GatorsModelT]

Thank you for your replies. I will pass this on to Gator.