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Old 12-31-2021, 12:42 AM
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Thanks for the great pics, especially the correct headlight bezel painting. Glad you got back to this car. Guess you have another 4 months before decent driving weather to keep working on it.

Where did you find the correct tail light bezel gasket at the body ? All I ever see is the solid ones, with no cut out relief for the bend and they buckle. I cut mine and it isn't very noticeable, but it's still there and bugs me.
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Hi Mitch, You have to cut them to mimic what the originals did to allow the gasket to form and flow around the corners. You just have to be careful and use a razor blade or xacto knife. Based on what I can see of the originals, they already had the relief cuts in them for a production setting.
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Hi Mitch, You have to cut them to mimic what the originals did to allow the gasket to form and flow around the corners. You just have to be careful and use a razor blade or xacto knife. Based on what I can see of the originals, they already had the relief cuts in them for a production setting.

OK, that is what I did and they look OK, I think I needed to cut just a little deeper as they still wanted to buckle. I have to take them off again sometime, so I'll make a slight "adjustment". Yours lay very flat and look original.
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