fender brace
January 28th, 2018, 03:27 PM
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fender brace
I have a 70 cutlass fender I am looking to save and the brace is rusted off. Does anybody reproduce or sell an inner brace or parts, to go along with some patch panels that are sold?
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January 28th, 2018, 04:01 PM
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There are ebay vendors who occasionally advertise the lower part of the inner brace, but they are "hobby shop" vendors with hand-made parts. I share your frustration on the lack of availability of the brace. The thing that really gets me is that there are ALREADY stamping dies to make these items, since they come as part of the whole repro fender, but the repro houses refuse to sell the brace separately.
January 28th, 2018, 04:35 PM
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There are ebay vendors who occasionally advertise the lower part of the inner brace, but they are "hobby shop" vendors with hand-made parts. I share your frustration on the lack of availability of the brace. The thing that really gets me is that there are ALREADY stamping dies to make these items, since they come as part of the whole repro fender, but the repro houses refuse to sell the brace separately.
I guess if I look at it from a business standpoint, I would be trying to sell as many fenders as I could because when you think about it, the money invested to reproduce these fenders to a relatively small group needs to be recouped somehow or make sense in the first place. The problem is that businessmen and cars guys are two different people with different objectives.
January 28th, 2018, 04:56 PM
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January 28th, 2018, 05:01 PM
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I guess they want you to buy the whole fender and ruin that to get a brace perhaps?
I guess if I look at it from a business standpoint, I would be trying to sell as many fenders as I could because when you think about it, the money invested to reproduce these fenders to a relatively small group needs to be recouped somehow or make sense in the first place. The problem is that businessmen and cars guys are two different people with different objectives.
I guess if I look at it from a business standpoint, I would be trying to sell as many fenders as I could because when you think about it, the money invested to reproduce these fenders to a relatively small group needs to be recouped somehow or make sense in the first place. The problem is that businessmen and cars guys are two different people with different objectives.
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