Tired of your car. Maybe it's time to add those extra accessories, skirting, bonnets, or spoilers that can give your ride style. Some of the after market accessories which are available to trick out your ride are:
Fenders skirts are pieces of sheet metal that cover the upper portions of the rear tires of an automobile. These were seen on many American cars between the 1940s and 1960s, going out of favor in the 70's. They were often paired with wide whitewall tires. The size of the skirt also varied, before the 50s it was common for all but the bottom inches of the rear tire to be covered, while by the 60s fender skirts only covered a few inches of the top of the tire, and were started disapperaing soon afterwards. Fender skirts remained for some time longer on a few cars, particularly large American luxury cars. Skirting is still available for some new cars as aftermarket accessories.
Bonnets: On race cars, or cars with aftermarket bonnets (that do not use the factory latch system) hood pins may hold down the bonnet. A bonnet may sometimes contain a bonnet ornament, bonnet scoop, and/or wiper jets. Bonnets are typically made out of steel or aluminum although aftermarket manufacturers may manufacture bonnets out of fiberglass, carbon fiber, or dry carbon. A recent trend in street racing has been to raise the rear end of the bonnet to promote cooling, although this, in theory, does little, except at dead stop, since the area of the bonnet directly in front of the windshield and the lowest portions of the windshield are almost always positive pressure zones (air actually flows into the engine bay, not out of it, increasing engine bay pressure).
Spoilers: A spoiler is an aerodynamic device attached to an automobile's boot. The spoilers intended design function is to 'spoil' unfavorable air movement across a body of a car when in motion. This can result in improved vehicle stability by decreasing lift or decreasing drag that may cause unpredictable handling in a car at high speed. Spoilers are often fitted to racecars and high-performance sports cars, although they have become common on some passenger vehicles, as well. Most spoilers are added to cars primarily for styling purposes and have little aerodynamic benefit or can even make the aerodynamics worse.
Extra Accessories, skirting, bonnets, spoilers are just a few ways to add custom styling to your car. Why buy a new ride, when you can simply add some style and class to the one you already own?