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Old 09-23-2020, 09:12 PM
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Looking for input on the Aftermarket Fender Birds if anyone has purchased them . I have no Idea what NOS ones are worth or even available.... but if someone has a set ????Lmk what’s available or input ...thanks Chris

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The aftermarket ones are a peel and stick. I recently found 2 NOS ones on ebay for my '73. They were advertised as sail panel emblems but had the correct pin locations for my fenders.

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GM actually produced these in peal and stick in the 80's as replacement parts. There are NOS ones floating around .

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GM actually produced these in peal and stick in the 80's as replacement parts. There are NOS ones floating around .
The later 2nd gen sail panel emblems are peel and stick.

I had a hard time finding the correct fender birds for my 73.

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From what I've seen the aftermarket ones have a stud for mounting on the fender if u wanted to use on the sail panel they tell to remove the stud and use adhesive tape

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another big difference from the original emblems & even the gm replacements in the 80's is that the originals had some "topography" in the metal of the emblem with raised lines & grooves, then was painted & filled with a thick clear epoxy type material. the gm peel & stick replacements & repro's were more of a printed style in the colored area of the bird.

not sure what the reproductions are like since i had some GM peel & sticks i used but i have a bunch of the original style where the thick clear releases & falls out leaving the chrome metal with the lines. kind of like whats pictured here, original emblem on the left & the repro or even the GM peel & stick looks like whats on the right.

http://www.78ta.com/Pages/nos.htm

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/\ I believe that change over was for 1977, but I could be wrong.
I had collected examples of both styles when I had my brother's '73 Formula, but when I gave it back, I gave him those parts too.

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