Quote from: CharlesTurner on June 13, 2019, 08:52:43 PMQuote from: Side-Oilers on June 13, 2019, 06:34:01 PM
I'm no expert, so this is merely a question: Would the steel of the fender have been so dented in, if it were a Ford factory stamp?
Looks to me like this pix shows varying degrees of impact dents in the metal.
I'm not talking about the depth of the letter/numbers, but of the metal around the letters/numbers as a whole.
This was done at SA, not Ford. Don't believe any attempt was made to shore up from the bottom, so the only thing to help would be the top edge of the coil spring cover underneath to stiffen the area.
Since it was done at SA, the stamping would have natural steel showing where the stamps were made. Original cars usually show surface rust on the letters/numbers.
On the old forum we had noted that not all cars were stamped near the coil spring, 17 was one of them, much closer to the front of the apron, so there are exceptions to the rule. This is a well done clone, nothing more. If Howard is following this, I wonder if he has contact info for the Peru owner.
Mike