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While I was waiting on more filler to dry I pulled a spare 68 drivers side fender I got from a load of parts last year off Marketplace. I needed to repair the fender of a few nasty dings and dents so I can use it on the 67 GMC K1500 that I am getting ready to sell. That truck came with a really bad drivers front fender that the farmer must of hit a tree or fence post with and peeled the front fender outward. Damaged the fender and the inner fender but spared the grille.

This fender is a good fender meaning it has no rust repair needed. It has a few typical dings and dents as most fenders over 50 years old do. This fender has two areas in the front eyebrow that have disrupted the body line. I have fixed these before with a little Map gas heating and a few specialty tools that I have made out of items laying around in the shop. The most useful one is a extra long eye bolt, the roundness and size seems to really work well for this area.

Heated it up and pounded out a few different times until i was in the ball park. Then I cut off the old bolts that were there to hold on the eyebrow trim, still need to weld those shut. Then moved on to shaving the marker light opening and replacing with some fresh new metal. I use a metal bar stock to follow as a guide for the metal cutting blade then after the new metal is prepped I use the magnets or the butt weld clamps or both.