opinion on cuda fender "gills" on 69

It is a 67-9, not a 71. Why not pull the fenders, take them to someone with a louver press, and put real louvers in the fenders. That way you would have your choice of innies or outties, forward or rear facing, and scale the size, length, and placement of them to something proportionate on the smaller A body. And they'd be real, not something faked on by the factory imitate what you'd actually have.