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Was their a long metal plate on the inner fender side for attaching the parking lights? If so (and there should be), you want to make sure that metal is touching metal or you will not have a good ground. You'll need that ground for the lights to work.
In other words, if there is a lot of paint or undercoating on the inside of your fender, you'll need to revisit. If not now, sometime after you discover the parking lights don't work.
You can ask me how I know this, but you probably have that all figured out.

Good to know, West. I appreciate the reminder. I suspect many electrical items may not work, even with a new harness. But I've been through the radio, heater, horns, ignition, all the gauges except fuel (haven't added that rear harness yet), and they all work fine. The overdrive is wired but not tested yet.

No plate under the parking lights, but 2 humungous thick fender washers, which looked wrong. They were on the lights when I took them off in 86, so I suspect the paint shop in 1971 misplaced them. I thought about bending the washers to fit the fender contour better. I suspect the plates are like that.

But for now, I replaced the large washers with smaller flat washers. I'm aware of the metal contact requirement from the wiring diagram. One end of a wire doesn't a circuit make.

EDIT: You're not referring to the large front fender support bracket. Does the plate go above that or below it. I'll have to look when I get home.

West & Joe is this the same plate you are rreferring to. This one is to my 120.

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Those are the plates I'm talking about.

I've never seen one of those before. The search begins.

I don't think I've ever seen them for sale before, except sometimes they're included with the fender lights, themselves.

The curve in the photo looks upside down to the mechanically dyslexic mind. Which is the upside? When you quit snickering, tell me. I've put a little bend in this washers which look very old so they fit the fender contour. That leaves protecting or guiding the wires so they don't chafe on the edge of the center hole in fender. I think I'll be fine as long as I have electrical grounding.

Joe and West, no... my cross bar in the side grills have no sign of any black ever being present. I'm with you guys, it looks really weird in chrome. Hmm...

I won't take off any points if you do that . . so long as no one peeks under my parking light fixture at the rubber grommet. Scraped the paint where the bolts go through the fender. Hope that will be enough to ground. The grommet will protect the wires, so I'm thinking Job Done, for now. For now. Auto restoration is like uranium half-life. And software. We're closer.

Hood going slow. Forgot I had to polish Max Merritt stainless steel belt molding.

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The bottom photo of the bracket is the side that meets the fender. The "gutter" is what helps protect the wires as they come out the hole, which then go directly into the "valley" of the fender brace. I think your grommet idea was a great idea. I wish I had thought of that. Without the bracket, you will probably want to give your wires some extra protection against the elements, because they will be out in the open before they start running down the valley of the fender brace.