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New replacement panel can be nice, but there can be problems. For instance, the reproduction ones I bought had such a poor fit where the grill surround meets the front edge, it left a gap of almost 1/2" on that outer edge. There is no way to correct this other than to fill the gap with bondo. It was tooling that wasn't set right or made right. The driver side would not line up with the original door. If you set the body line at the lower moulding to line up, there was a huge gap with the cowl. If you lined it up with the cowl gap, the moulding edge was too high. The only other way I could think of to make it fit descent was to move the door up, but that would ruin the door gap. I said the heck with it and found a set of originals that were in good condition.

I've seen trucks at the shows that had the exact same issues. Nice paint jobs and poor fit with the grill, etc. If your fenders and doors can be repaired, you might want to reconsider your options.