Quote Originally Posted by Don Shillady
Hi,

I have the full fendered '29 Ford roadster from Bebops and am generally satisfied. Don't bother to e-mail them unless you contact them by phone first. I have almost always called them on the phone and found them to be very helpful. Once they e-mailed me a photo of a brake mount and are generally helpful. I ordered the Model-A Brookville frame from them and all the chassis gear from Brookville from them as an intermediary just to get what they recommended. The gel coat finish is generally very good and the doors fit fine. The deck lid is slightly off but OK. I found two problems with the '29 which might not apply to other models. First there is a mold flashing on the right side of the cowl on the floor-fenders which my painter tried to paint over but I have a written agreement that he will smooth that over when I get the car running. Second, the floor of what is the trunk/rumble area is set up for a stock spring set up and when you add coil-over springs you have to saw out some access holes which is annoying when you have to figure out a way to cover the holes with some sort of covers. I used inverted Rubbermade tablespoon holders with a bolt down metal frame to cover the top of the coil-overs so that I can change the shocks some day without removing the body! A transverse spring (stock) will probably not have this problem. I bought the Bebops body because I did not want to mess with the problem of aligning the fenders. It is quite a convenience to have all the fenders already there, but I added real bumpers to protect the 'glass fenders so as not to have to worry about repairing the whole floor-fender unit. I have found the Bebops folks very helpful for a lot of questions if you call them on the phone. Apparently they have two women answering the phones and one or two mechanics in another building so they are not keen on a lot of e-mail responses. Compared to a similar company which also has the floor-fenders all together Bebops is a friendly group; the other unnamed company has a very nasty woman on the phone end and apparently copies much of what Bebops has. One last thing is that I had Bebops hang the door and deck lid for me and the doors align quite well. One last comment. I show a picture of the inside of the door to show the 1" square tubing reinforcement for the 'glass body. I found the trans tunnel was far too large and could not find space for my foot for the accelerator and the brake pedal so I had to cut out the tunnel and replace it by a much smaller fabricated fiberglass tunnel about 20% of the size. That caused me quite a loss of time but was necessary.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder
good to see a good review , this company is not very far from my house and i was thinkng about driving up someday when im ready to do my own fenders and maybe speak to them and hopefully just buy the fenders and bring them home and save the shipping ..