72 TA : New Project

[njsteve]

Actually it is going so well, I think I will use the white one on the car since it is the original one from the car. Then I'll hang up the blue one.

The reason these things were so fragile wasn't the material (polyethylene) that they were made of, it was the fact that the mounting holes were so far off, the assembly line guys had to muscle them into place to get the bolt holes to line up. The valances were under so much stress when bolted to the car, if you hit one good pothole, they shattered like glass. That is why you always see the center split up the middle and one of the upper bars broken. I fill in all of the lower mounting holes and redrill them in a new position, about 3/4" away from the original mounting holes. Also, you cant tighten the bolts with a wrench, you just finger tighten them with locktight on the bolts so the panel can expand and flex with the nose.