Thank you for the post Fastmark. This has been quite a feat to find missing links, smoking guns and the light of Sun on these rare items.

My fenders were cracking in some small corner stress points and one slit of day light could be seen where the 90% bend was on the top portion of the fender skirt. I have since welded it shut via an ace welder on Long Island who at first was reluctant to weld them shut, but succeeded with his expertise of using steel weld rod and no Brass.