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Other than the fact that the plain caps are probably unobtanium, it would be cool to have them just to be different...

BigKev - thank for that information. I had not found that. That definitively clears it up!

Ken_P - yeah, they would be cool, but in my case I wouldn’t want then even if they were truly what my car had originally. For me, “original’ is what the car had when Dad was driving it and that was with the model designation.

I went to the shop today to pick up the last of my interior trim pieces to be re-woodgrained. While there, I learned the cause of my tire rubbing the right front fender when making a sharp turn and up the curb of my driveway.

The main fender support arm was bent. It’s likely that this was bent when Dad got hit in that corner and had the fender damage. They were straightening it back out to match the undamaged profile of the drivers side. That should bring my fenders back to the proper (and matching) height and take care of my tire rubbing.

They shop takes a lot of pictures and puts them in Google photos. They just forgot to add me so that I can see the photos along the way. They said they have some good photos showing the damage to the support arm. I’ll post the photos once I have access to them.

Anyway, it’s always good news to at least know the source of a problem. You can’t fix it until you know the source.