Do 1969 Front Fenders interchange with anything?

davepl · Poncho Master!

Do 1969 Front Fenders interchange with anything?

seventy2plus2 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

I'm hoping our man John in Montreal can chime in as he has both US & Cdn 69's. For 1970 the US & Cdn fenders are different, and John indicated there's a difference in the measurement from the wheel opening to the back of the fender.

Fortunately for my 70 Parisienne, I had a spare set of fenders that donated the vertical support structure to the original fenders. The donor supports still needed some work, but they were in way better shape than the originals.

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

Here is a Catalina right front fender for sale on E-bay .

and here is a right front green one off a original Cdn Starto chief . they sure look close

North · Guru

They are completely different Im afraid. The wheel opening is shifted 1 closer to the cowl on the Canadian fender. The top rear of the fender near the windshield has a very different shape, kicking up much higher (hoods are very different there too) and lastly the inner structure is totally different to mate to the Chevy radsupport, cowl and inner fenders.

I might have some good pictures of the back corners of my fenders when they were being painted. They needed a patch on the outer skin but the bottom lip and the bracing was fine.

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

It's hard to imagine why GM went through all the trouble of re-tooling the Pontiac bodies to mate with Chevy chassis. Seems like it would have been easier just to build "regular" Pontiac's here in Canada.

seventy2plus2 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Just an FYI. Here's a photo of the fenders from my 70 Parisienne. The entire bottom rear of both needed new metal to be fabricated, and they used the vertical support from my spare fenders. Also, the passenger fender was rusted right at the top of the wheel opening, so again they had to splice in a section from my donor fender. appx $2000, but it was a work of art.

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