1973 SD Trans Am with 1774 miles

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Charley Lillard</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I am trying to show the car as it is and not fluffed. Am example is the missing bolt in one of the pics. I don't think that bolt was ever installed and it will never get installed. Probably get points deducted if judged at a show and shine but it is a part of the cars history that I think is more important than points. We don't come across cars like this very often. </div></div>

That missing bolt is pretty much definitive proof of my theory of the brutality of assembly line workers when it came to the installation of the polyethylene valances. Since they couldn't get the valance mounting hole to match up with the center bracket in place, they left off one of the bracket bolts to swivel the bracket close enough to get a bolt to reach...with the predicted damage ensuing.



Compare to my valance that I added an additional 3/4&quot; of material to, in order to make it wider in the center area, and then filled and redrilled the mounting hole directly under the mounting bracket:




And the resulting damage to the upper mounting tabs from the lower mounting bolt stress:





P.S. I'd be happy to fix that valance. Just send the car right on over. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]