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I love freebies, sort of maybe
A buddy of mine donated these fenders to the cause. Pretty straight but have some rust issues along with a much larger issue. What do you guys think of these custom beauties ha ha
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
Someone spent some time on the fabrication on that install. I like them. If your not going for stock they beat most of the other lights I have seen. I would love to have them.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
I think they look good, someone spent a lot of time putting those Dodge van lights in there.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
maybe I need to renew my subscription so I can discuss things farther. they actually are well built the passenger side has some rust looking bubbles under the paint above the light. i'm really still on the fence about them I like the idea just not sure if I like these lights.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
I think there is a lot of potential there. In general I think those tail lights are really well executed.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
I'm actually liking them. And they should be easy and cheap to find replacements if ever needed
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
Looks like the south end of a elephant with blue dots.My$.02 . IMO someone is a good fabricator not so much a designer.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
It wouldn't be too hard to cut those out and put in fresh metal there to make them back nice again. that is what I would do with/to them. Jim
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
Oh by the way I would double what you paid for them
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
I don't like multiplying by 0. at the end of the day i'm just trying to get rid of that short box spare tire fender without spending any money which isn't easy to do but i'm patient.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
on another note based on this ad I should be able to sell the one good lens for enough to just buy a new fender
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tail-Light-L...9c60df&vxp=mtr
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
I think they look good, have seen a lot worse for sure and also a lot of just the same as others, they are different in a good way.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
have quite a bit of work to do to them i'm going to leave the taillights as is for now and just focus on the rust. the passenger side is rusted threw on top of the fender and about the taillight. drivers side the flanges are good but a lot of rust on the bottoms front and back. i'm hoping we can salvage enough patches out of my passenger fender to patch these ones up. i'm not willing to chop up my drivers side for patches it's an extremely clean fender i'm sure someone out there with a short step will want it for there's eventually.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
just scored again a retired body man with a sand blaster needs his computer fixed :-) should have some more pic's after he's done with them this week
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
these fender's are toast they have about 1/4 inch of bondo all over them and they bondo'd over a bunch of rust above the passenger side tail light(i'm pretty sure I could punch a hole with my fist and i'm a wimp). i'll get some new pic's up but it's really bad. I've never welded sheet metal before so I might do some practicing on these since the price was right.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
![]() and sadly this is why they were free :-(
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
Like you said maybe you can use them to cut up for some patches for your other fenders and if you can get that much use out of them then great.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
Sort of maybe, ya time for a few patches, seen and fixed worse, still well worth it.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
i'm sure many out there could certainly fix them, I've never tried so i'll guess we'll see. was hoping to get them out of the truck and get some more pic's but didn't get a chance. there's plenty more holes to fill as well.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
Maybe you can use the one to fix the spare tire cutout on the one you have.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
a lot of people keep telling me that but i'm not sure I could get myself to modify that spare fender incase somebody else needs it. it's really solid not a speck of rust.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
![]() top passenger fender ![]() bottom drivers ![]() bottom drivers ![]() here's how the back side of the taillights looks, i'm guessing they didn't do any welding just used some kind of seam sealer then lots of bondo on the other side to mold it in.
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Re: I love freebies, sort of maybe
if you go below I have a bunch of pic's of my spare fender before I freshened up the primer last summer.
http://s1054.photobucket.com/user/wr...ary/69stepside
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