casper50 Posted September 22, 2013 Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 I just bought a 1947 dodge 3 window coupe. It has a bad right rear fender. I've found a 47 Desoto 5 window coupe near me that has a decent fender. Will they interchange? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floydflathead Posted September 23, 2013 Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 I wish I could tell you for sure. Seems like they should. I'm interested to know how this works out because I have a 46 Dodge 3W coupe. I think my fenders are all straight, but never sure what the rust and mud situation is until you get under the paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casper50 Posted September 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 ">http:// This is the problem with mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyHarold Posted September 23, 2013 Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 ">http:// This is the problem with mine. That should buff right out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdoland Posted September 23, 2013 Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 Try a clay bar.....should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busycoupe Posted September 23, 2013 Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 It appears to have rust through up near the welting; that may be more difficult to buff out. -- Still, if the rust is not causing structural damage to the fender it could probably be patched. Could you get the fender off and then have a body shop weld in a patch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casper50 Posted September 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 Have to wait until the car gets here. It's being shipped from Michigan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zephyrland Posted September 24, 2013 Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 Try a clay bar.....should work. haha. clay takes out all the holes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knuckleharley Posted September 24, 2013 Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 (edited) I just bought a 1947 dodge 3 window coupe. It has a bad right rear fender. I've found a 47 Desoto 5 window coupe near me that has a decent fender. Will they interchange? Thanks I have been told that the same year Dodge,Chrysler,and DeSoto fenders interchange. It's the Plymouth fenders and doors that are the odd man out up front on 42-48/early 49 cars. IIRC,the rears swap out from 42 to 48/early 49. The 42 front fenders stopped at the cowl and the bottom swell didn't show on the doors like the 46-48/early 49's. Once again,the Plymouth are the exception. Edited September 24, 2013 by knuckleharley 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casper50 Posted September 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 Thanks Knuckleharley. That's what I thought but before I bought it I wanted to get some kind of confirmation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcmiller Posted September 24, 2013 Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 You can confirm this using the 1940-48 Chrysler Sheet Metal reference in the download section of this website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casper50 Posted September 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 JC thanks for telling me that those files are there. Unfortunately I can't open them. I keep getting the message "file is corrupt". Looking at the instructions on renaming and combining them and then unzipping them leaves me dumbfounded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcmiller Posted September 24, 2013 Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 (edited) Try getting it here: http://www.pwchryslerclub.org/resources.html It has the whole manual in one, large pdf file. No unzipping required. But make sure you right-click the link (on the destination webpage) and select download to computer. Then you'll have it on your own computer and can open it directly instead of using your internet browser. It is text searchable but the OCRing did not work very well. I recommend that you not rely on text search and instead manually check each division for cross-reference information. Edited September 24, 2013 by jcmiller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casper50 Posted September 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 Thanks JC much easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casper50 Posted September 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 The book says that the part numbers are different dodge right rear fender 1947 12-18-5 872 956 Desoto right rear fender 1947 12-18-5 872 954 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg g Posted September 24, 2013 Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 The difference is probably the De Soto has a horizontal trim piece and the fender will be drilled for trim clips, while the Dodge goes out naked on its rear fenders, and is not drilled. So you could get the De Soto fender and trim and put it on one side, and leave the other W/O the trim spear and then challenge folks to find the difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casper50 Posted September 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 If that was the only difference I'd just weld up the trim holes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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