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Re: Sins visited upon marker lights

To: Toby B <toby@wolfenet.com>,
Subject: Re: Sins visited upon marker lights
From: Mike Poorboy <bitterrootprop@nidlink.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 18:01:30 -0800
Toby,
The hole was brazed over by the PO an a 69' light was put in its spot.
The car had extensive front end damage, and I replaced the left fender
with the correct one from my parts car.

I guess we are potential PO's, so what we do to our cars can haunt us
in the future.

Mike

Toby B wrote:

> Mike,
>         If one fender really was from a '70, it'd have a square light, too,
> with a pretty big square hole.
>         My '68 came with a '69 fender with the hole closed up (actual metal,
> brazed in!) but, since I liked the '69 lights, I opened up the hole and
> mirrored it to the other fender.  Fool am I- the '69 marker is "one side
> fits all" and the fenders are drilled differently.
>         Does this make me a PO?
> Toby
>
> Mike Poorboy wrote:
> >
> > When restoring my 69' I didn't pay attention to the locations of the side
> > marker lights. One of the fenders was from a 70'. After I had repainted
> > it I noticed that the 69' side marker light is higher on the fender than the
> > 70's. Like Laurie's car you don't notice it unless you look at it straight 
>on.
> >
> > This will definitely be corrected when I redo the body work this coming
> > summer.
> >
> > Mike


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