quarter panel

noun

plural quarter panels

: a side section of an automobile body between the door and the trunk or between the door and the hood

a dent in a rear/front quarter panel

A lap nine encounter with Robert Pressley's Chevy forced Labonte to pit for left-rear quarter-panel repairs.

—Steve Crowe

Flag emblems became popular automotive dress-up items. They usually were affixed to the front quarter panel and they might be an American stars-and-stripes to show patriotism or they might reflect the flag or colors of the motorist's country of ancestry.

—Richard A. Wright

Examples of quarter panel in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After the pickup forced its way past the cruiser, the trooper utilized the push bumper to make contact with the right rear quarter panel of the pickup. —Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2025

Coble's branding will be featured on the car's quarter panels, while Canter will be highlighted on the hood of the No. 66 Ford Mustang Dark Horse. —Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2025

Multiple locations on the truck’s two quarter panels allegedly can display similar issues. —Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2025

The first release of the Air Jordan 1 featured a fiery red mudguard, heel and tip, paired with a short white quarter panel and completed with a classic black Nike swoosh. —Tiana Randall, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025

The front quarter panels have scalloped indentions that carry over to the front doors, with the one on the driver’s side cleverly used to conceal the charging port hatch. —PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2025

The mirror on the driver’s side and the front quarter panel of the car were left at the scene. —Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Jan. 2025

The way the totem holder opens from the quarter panel is also part of that, as is the way everything changes in unison when the totems are placed in the center console. —Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024

New for the era is the brass ingot on the front quarter panel. —Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1919, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for quarter panel

• multichannel
• perianal
• annal
• annul
• cannel
• channel
• flannel
• pannel