1974 Dart Swinger VS. The Evils Of Rust!

Dartnut said

I stand corrected then.
I thought mine said ''Made in China'' on them.
There's still no excuse for the panels being too short, from what i read, the dies were made in the U.S.A. and then sent overseas to actually manufacture the panels, bad quality control i guess........

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yeah, i spoke with a vendor about them this morning at a swap meet and pretty much confirmed my thinking as to the problem. when they changed the rears in 74, the last part of the quarter where it goes to the tail panel is infact a different length than the previous years. the angle where it welds to the tail panel is also different slightly. AMD did not stamp these panels for much more than a year from what this vendor told me so she thought as I did, being that AMD realized their issues and stopped production of them.

My solution is to cut and weld the pieces I need from either my junk factory quarter, or try to find a piece from a car in a junkyard, shouldnt have too go thru this but no choice.