Anyone out there run into the problem with the fenders lining up in the clip? Almost looks like I need to drill out the spot welds to make this fit better.
Who made the fender?
And if you think the OEM (now "NOS") fenders would fit any better, you would likely be wrong. As I heard it, the guys on the assembly line would grab a fender and start fitting it. And if it took too much time they would throw it on the spares heap and grab another one until they got one that fit better. At the end of the manufacturing run, all the ones on the heap became the much sought after "NOS fenders." Which fit about as well as you might expect.
I remember hearing Jonathan Ward from Icon saying something similar on a podcast. He said that those "spares" were the ones that the reproduction panels were based on.
That and then the ones that are claimed to be made on the original Ford stamping dies