Stumbled into these the other day. Don't even have a car to use them on lmao. Old man claimed they are Jimmy Jones but I've been lied to before. Could be Chris I really don't know.
The mechanisms look just like some Foxcraft branded cruiser skirts I had, although they might have copied each other. Either way, they're very nice, I'd hang those on the wall like artwork if I didn't have a car to use them on. Real steel bubbles are fairly rare.
Yeah, likely not Jimmy Skirts..those are mass produced…cool..just not Jimmy’s. here’s a set back in Walt’s Auto Supply other building as they were cleaning it out.. Also Jimmy’s or Inkster skirts were more of a regional thing..you would drive to his place in Inkster, he’d take measurements, and tell you when you could pick them up.. Dave Jenkins (RIP) loved telling the story of how he acquired his Jimmy Skirts….
Crazy how many skirt companies we had in the Metro Detroit area, then add in Lee Tailights, and throw in the model car companies …aside from the crap weather 8 months a year it was a pretty Bitchin place to be…
I have a set real similar that appear to fit shoebox Fords (had hoped they would fit the Merc but they are not tall enough). Mine have multiple holes drilled along the bottom, presumably so you had a choice of where to fit the brackets maybe to fit different cars. I guessed mine would be aftermarket/mass produced and that the Jimmy Jones skirts wouldn't have need for the holes as they were made for each car directly. No matter, they are cool just the same!
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