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Hopefully the damage is not including the door jamb areas or you will also need to do a lot of extra cutting and splicing at the door opening to make the new short wheelbase fenders work with your longer wheelbase car. While the pre 51 models predominately had the wheelbase difference ahead of the cowl 51 and later years has it between the front seat and rear axle as evidenced by where the vertical gap at rear of the door falls in relation to the skirt cutout.
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Re: Body Repairs
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That's a good point. I looked before I picked up these clipper fenders and I'm fairly confident that they should graft in well and take care of the areas that are rusted out. But there's always more than meets the eye!
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I am surprised you picked a Clipper fender. They look quite different to me (maybe length, and taillight housing, stamping, tailfin etc)
but any body panels won't be too easy to find especially for lower volume models (senior cars) And it really doesn't help when they changed the stamping again for 1954 for the backup light housing. I know that type of bondo work, my '78 Volare was like that. Both side of wheel lips rusted out. Eventually the car rusted out (not driven in the winter since 2003) last summer : O Usually some colours hide the rust better than others. Black, tan/brown/beige hides it the best, while light blue or green, silver/white shows the rust easier.
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I'll only be using the bottom 1/3 of the fender, so wasn't worried about the taillights, fins, etc. What I really needed was the portion for the skirt and from the skirt to the back of the car, which is the same. That's the skirt for my car in the donor fender.  If there would have been a good set of fenders off a senior car I would have got them, but most are rusted out. These clipper fenders are pretty solid, and were ready to go, so I grabbed them. I'll spend a bit of time comparing and measuring to make sure everything lines up the way I think it should. After I have a good plan, then I can start chopping up my car, which I don't want to even start until closer to the end of summer.
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