Wheel Opening Trim Question - 67 Belvedere

[ardentind]

Hey all,
Noticed the underside of the rear wheel opening lips on my ‘67 Belvedere II have holes for screws (noticed when I was block sanding as the screw holes are on the edge and pushed a high spot into the quarter).

Question, did all quarters get the holes regardless of whether or not the car actually had trim or not? The car came with a bunch of trim pieces but I don’t remember seeing any wheel opening trim.

There is no lower rocker trim on the car. Did they make a wheel opening ONLY trim that didn’t tie into the lower rocker trim?

Just want to know if I need to be looking for the wheel opening trim or not. Have a feeling the car never had any on it but seemed weird the inner lips had the screw holes in them.

Thanks in advance!

 

[guy gadbois]

Never say never but never say always either... but my 67 Belvedere II has wheel opening mouldings and no rocker trim. I have seen them both ways tho... I'd be looking for trim if it were I.

 

[Jerry Hall]

I've never noticed that the trim holes were on the wheel well openings on lesser trim models. On 66 Satellites the wheel well trim did join the rocker trim, but in 67 it did not. My guess is that the holes in the wheel wells were not there when the quarters went on the car, but were added if the car got wheel well trim. In 67 the Satellites got a different wheel well trim on the quarters than a GTX and required fewer holes. A lot of Belvedere II 's got wheel well trim, but Belvedere I 's did not. I say if your not going to use wheel well trim, weld them up or use your favorite filler and eliminate them. The trim screws originally were not long enough to cause other problems in the quarter. My guess is yours was added or if the car has had previous work the wrong screws were used.

 

[copper67sat]

2 67 Belv IIs both have full wheel opening trim and upper body side molding but no rocker molding.

 

[ardentind]

I've never noticed that the trim holes were on the wheel well openings on lesser trim models. On 66 Satellites the wheel well trim did join the rocker trim, but in 67 it did not. My guess is that the holes in the wheel wells were not there when the quarters went on the car, but were added if the car got wheel well trim. In 67 the Satellites got a different wheel well trim on the quarters than a GTX and required fewer holes. A lot of Belvedere II 's got wheel well trim, but Belvedere I 's did not. I say if your not going to use wheel well trim, weld them up or use your favorite filler and eliminate them. The trim screws originally were not long enough to cause other problems in the quarter. My guess is yours was added or if the car has had previous work the wrong screws were used.

Thanks for the info. I didn’t mean the screws were long and touched anything else. The holes are close enough to the outside edge that it’s like they were center punched and that caused a slight bump pushing outward on the exterior flat surface.

 

[ardentind]

2 67 Belv IIs both have full wheel opening trim and upper body side molding but no rocker molding.

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Glad to know it was an option and didn’t require the lower rocker. Was this a data code option that I could find on the fender tag?

 

[R413]

All 1967 Belvedere II cars had WW trim. It says so in the brochure.
Rocker trim was optional on 1967 Belvedere II cars.
None of the 67 WW trim ties into them rocker trim.

The 1966 Satellite WW trim does tie into the rocker trim. It connects and looks bad with one or the other missing.

They don't put holes in unless it has the trim. So a Belvedere I does not have holes or trim.
A Satellite doesn't have holes to the bottom of the WW because the trim doesn't go to the bottom.

 

[65satelliteman]

Hello-----I can help you out with the wheel opening moldings and I just sent you a personal message

 

[ardentind]

Thanks for the info guys!!

Charlie, I’ll be in touch.

 

[ardentind]

Here are the said holes in the wheel well lips. Thanks again!