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Offline gichy

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Trunk lids
« on: March 05, 2005 - 10:39:17 AM »
Has any one used the after market trunk lid yet?
Do they fit or are the a piece of junk?
My trunk lid is too rust to fix.

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Offline Street_Challenged73

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Re: Trunk lids
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2005 - 12:35:21 PM »
Sorry I don't have the answer, but I too am wondering the same thing.  I haven't really heard any feedback as to how well these things are reproduced.
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Offline dilligaf

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Re: Trunk lids
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2005 - 01:41:08 PM »
Hi,
My body guy ordered two.
The first one he ordered he refused (lite, and needed more work than the original)
The second was better.
He still had to do body work on it though.
This pic show a smear of plastic going on, Dolores (the older woman) is only in the shot as a joke they were playing on me.
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Offline Carlwalski

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Re: Trunk lids
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2005 - 04:41:14 PM »
I ordered an aftermarket one and it fit good but have heard that this is not always the case.

Mine had a tinny dent in a hard to fix place but apart from that it wasn't bowed, bent and the fit was spot on.
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Offline hemi71

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Re: Trunk lids
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2005 - 08:48:58 PM »
I have an aftermarket one on my 71 and it is a real POS. it fits OK, but is very flimsy and it's obviously made of thinner sheetmetal. I have an original one to use as a replacement when i redo the car in a couple of years.

Offline gichy

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Re: Trunk lids
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2005 - 06:42:42 AM »
NZ 440RT and hemi71

Were did you puy your trunk lid from?

Most likely they all come from the same manufacture!!  over seas ha ha ha

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Offline 4Cruizn

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Re: Trunk lids
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2005 - 10:21:28 AM »
I got mine local here in Michigan and it fit just fine as far as I know!  Body man never said anything bad about it!  Here is the link:


http://store.shermanparts.com/cgi-bin/sherman/product_list.html?img_num=251