I’m trying to find outer wheel house replacements for my 69 Cougar. I’ve seen Dayna corn’s for 67-68 and was wondering if these could be made to replace the ones on my 69?
If I could cut them to replace the bad parts of mine and leave the support from the old ones and use the new to replace and weld in place?
Unfortunately the one you want is this one. https://secure.cougarpartscatalog.com/store/p/15604-Wheel-House-Inner-and-Outer-Passenger-Side-Used-1969-Mercury-Cougar.html?sessionthemeid=26
1967 - 1968 is not the same.
Thanks for replying to my question @Royce I am replacing both rear quarter panels and was going to fix the rusted out outer wheel house’s . I was thinking of fabricating the wheel houses with some sheet metal, but I would really like to keep them as original as I can.
I would also like to keep my cost down shipping from coast to coast was really expensive for the rear quarter panels I purchased.
I’m kinda at a stand still until i figure this out.
It’s one of the reasons I don’t buy rusty cars. Often the repair costs balloon more than expected.
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@Royce I agree with you this is the last one I’m going to tackle like this. I have sheet metal to repair most of what I am going to replace. It looks like I may just have to fabricate these wheel wells. Im still searching around but its’s not looking to promising.
Hi Royce hoping you would know the answer to this.
I have fabricated a new outer wheel house on my 69 Cougar and am close to mounting the rear quarter panel.
My question is do I spot weld the outer wheel house lip to the rear quarter panel?
My old one was so bad and full of fiberglass and bond-O I can’t tell if it was spot welded I’m assuming it was.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Royce.
Fred
Yes the factory spot welded anything they could.
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The 69/70 wheel wells are hard to come by. No reproductions are made yet but i`m sure dynacorn will eventually make them. 69 openings are smaller then 70 so since you repaired yours your ahead of the game. I had to locate replacements for my 70 convertible and they were hard to find.
thanks
pat
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Thanks Royce I have finished up all the metal work and am real happy how they turned out. I’ll start on the passenger side next
Now I will sand the left side down and epoxy paint.
Thank you for replying to my question i thought they were spot welded Thank you for confirming that. I still have some fitting to do on the rear quarter panel and also clean and re-grease the window regulator.
And thanks for chiming in droptopcat. The wheel house wasn’t to bad to build. I had to do some thinking on them but all an all I’m very happy with how it turned out.