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crease/dent in inner fender?

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59Rob

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The motor is out but what I thought was a reasonably easy job now looks like a full blown retoration. I won't be getting to it for a bit but I'll be asking a ton of questions so I know what to do when I start. I've restored many cars but none were British, most of my questions will be regarding the mechanical side but I will have others, such as this one.

The car was hit on the right side some 50 years ago, the inner fender has a rather big crease/dent that looks semi natural so I don't know if it's meant to be like that or not? I saw a couple restored TR3's in the summer and the inner fenders weren't excatly smooth as glass so that didn't help and hard to tell with the motor in.

Here's a few pics, the gap is about an inch although it's hard to tell in the pic.

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looking straight down on it with a straight edge against it

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I replaced the inner fenders on the TR3 I was restoring and ran into some outer fender alignment issues. Nothing fits like the original so metal work the crease out.
 
boxofparts said:
I replaced the inner fenders on the TR3 I was restoring and ran into some outer fender alignment issues. Nothing fits like the original so metal work the crease out.
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I can certainly do that, was just wondering if there was any sort of indent there to start with for carb clearance maybe? not that it appears to need it.
 
Sometmes that area gets 'massaged' when someone fits a different manifold or non-stock air cleaners, etc -- but I do not think that crease is natural.
 
Certainly don't see anything like that on mine. Fortunatly it's easy to get to so I go with Boxofparts.

Good luck, Tinkerman
 
Thanks guys, panel beating it is, I'll need to cut out and patch it further up where it joins the firewall as well, looks like it was fixed by a chimp
 
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