Cinnamon 75 Duster \
I said a while back that the fenders were 'not too bad'. I'm sure that by most standards they would have been scrapped (along with the rest of the car). I decided to be consistent, I would fix them like everything else. The left was the easier one that I showed previously. As for the right, it required some donor metal (which I believe was from a 73 Dart Sport) that I got from member 'Framedude' last fall.
The outer skin of my fender looked pretty good, but it had rust on some of the mounting areas. I swapped the long bracket at the back along with the top piece where the square hole is under the antenna. also had a small area rusted on top near the little indicator light, and the front and back sections of the mounting flange.
I drilled the spot welds and tapped the bracket out from the crimp along the back edge. I cant say I was surprised, but there was a lot of rust under there. Made me wonder about some of the restorations that I see where 'everything' is blasted and primed, followed by a very expensive paint job - but stuff like that is never removed. That rust unchecked could have gone through in the next couple years.
I said a while back that the fenders were 'not too bad'. I'm sure that by most standards they would have been scrapped (along with the rest of the car). I decided to be consistent, I would fix them like everything else. The left was the easier one that I showed previously. As for the right, it required some donor metal (which I believe was from a 73 Dart Sport) that I got from member 'Framedude' last fall.
The outer skin of my fender looked pretty good, but it had rust on some of the mounting areas. I swapped the long bracket at the back along with the top piece where the square hole is under the antenna. also had a small area rusted on top near the little indicator light, and the front and back sections of the mounting flange.
I drilled the spot welds and tapped the bracket out from the crimp along the back edge. I cant say I was surprised, but there was a lot of rust under there. Made me wonder about some of the restorations that I see where 'everything' is blasted and primed, followed by a very expensive paint job - but stuff like that is never removed. That rust unchecked could have gone through in the next couple years.