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fender gussets

Jason brought his GTO by today with some tire problems. One of the tires was separating. Pretty scary. Sean took pics. Maybe he'll post them.

Anyway....
I finally replaced my missing fender gussets. They disapeared many years ago while the car sat collecting rust at my "friend's" body shop for about a year.
A few months ago I went to install some filler panels, used on the A/C cars for better radiator air flow, when I noticed the gussets they attached to were missing. I'd had the fillers since i bought the car, but I removed them before taking the car to the body shop, and just never bothered to put them back on.

I bided my time and found some gussets cheap (Thanks Yellowbird!), and bought some new stabilizer bushings for the fenders.

First pic is a "before" pic, actually taken months ago... you might remember the post, or find it. It was in one of my first entries.

One of the gussets was cut (did I mention cheap?) so I had to repair it.

The last pic is as done as it gets today. I need to replace some of the bolts with more correct ones. Not because it needs to be a "correct" concourse judged car in a show, but because they look and fit better.

PS, many big pics.

002gussets&fillers.JPG 003fender_stabilizers.JPG

006repair_gusset1.JPG 007repair_gusset2.JPG

008reapair_gusset3.JPG 009repair_gusset5.JPG

010repair_gusset6.JPG 011stabilizer_bottom:top.JPG

012wahh.JPG 013hoorayyy_gussets .JPG