[68ragtop]

Was there any rhyme or reason behind how the splash guards were installed?
On my other thread we were talking about the staples & how they were installed.
But now, I compared the the two sides & they are quite different. The left side is pretty clean. The 4" control arm piece was tucked into the recessed edge & had 4 decently aligned staples in it. The rights side was pulled up much higher into the wheel well & has random staples all over the place.

I am going to guess its because even thought they came from the same car, they were more than likely stapled by two different individuals. If thats the case, I will go with the cleaner look, but just thought I better ask in case there was some reason for this.

Thanks, 68RT

[68ragtop]

So from what I found on a few other threads, it would appear the shields were installed on both sides of the wells, & with that in mind I am guessing the staples can pretty much go anywhere & not really be wrong. Another one of those random things that I am probably looking too closely at....

For those of you that have looked at a lot of these, how far up should the shield be installed? Left & right on these two I have are considerably different. One side is at least 2" higher. I can't see a reason for this other than two different people installed them,
but I could be wrong.

Sorry I forgot to enlarge the picts on the first post, so I will do it here.

[68ragtop]

I decided to split the difference. So That will work.

But, Until today I didn't realize the backside of the aftermarket wells are at least 2-3" shorter in the back. what the heck? they are very close in every other aspect. I didn't notice it until I was drilling the holes for the back splash guards. Kinda bummed about that. Very noticeable difference.

[Formulajones]

I don't think what you're seeing is unusual. My fathers 69 is the same way. Driver side has the splash shield stapled a good 2 inches higher with the staples all over the place. I mentioned some other differences in your other thread, being an early Baltimore built 69.

I kind of enjoy the quirks found in these old cars and sadly at some point most of these cars are over restored and little things like this get lost to time. It's for these reasons we chose to leave his the way it came from the factory.

[dataway]

Hey ... it was the 60's there were LOTS of people very high when they were assembling these cars

[68ragtop]

Lol, I think if we could be a fly on the wall on the assembly lines of the 60's we would understand a lot more. I watched a short video on radio assembly at the Delco plant in Indiana. Wow, no wonder these radios where so expensive back then. looked a little unorganized & of all hand assembled and tested of course.

What do yo guys think of my picts of the wheels well tails above. Other than maybe shipping size, I don't understand the repops are cut off so much shorter? Here I wanted to get rid of extra holes that weren't originally on mine & the metal is completely different were it meets the firewall of the body.

[Formulajones]

I'm guessing those are reproduction inner fenders. They have to save money somewhere so I guess they figured that's where they would do it.

Originals not usable?

[68ragtop]

yes, they are repops, I bought them because my originals where edgy & the tabs that connect to the low fender bolt where rusted away & gone. Also had rust pitting in other areas as well as covered with rust proofing. Seemed a no brainer to replace them. I welded up the extra holes they had & I was impressed how all the rest of the details where the same & the fit seemed perfect. I was just bummed to see they "chopped the tails" off. at least 2.5". just didn't makes sense that they would do that when they where so close every other way.

[68ragtop]

I'm not going to change or fix them at this point. But, I drew a yellow line representing the way they should be. originals went down near the bottom of the frame, these barely meet the bottom of the body. I guess mine will just show more of the rubber splash sheilds. It will look fine, but always bugs me that pretty much every repopped part has issues that could easily be made right.