I was driving up to Seattle yesterday to catch the Monday Night Football game (great game by the way)...

Around Tacoma (and a good 120 miles from my home), a truck in front of me stopped very suddenly, and I wasn't able to stop quite in time.

Lucky for us both, it wasn't a very hard impact. It was stop and go traffic, and I couldn't have been going more then 15 mph at impact. Still, I was the one at fault, and I ended up with the ticket.

Here's a picture of the damage. I'll post more in a bit.



Although hard to see from that picture, the drivers side fender is rather bent up. The hood looks like it got bent a bit too.

The fender isn't bent sharply though. The next photos will show it better.

Lucky for me, I have spare headlight mounting brackets, but I'm not sure if they will bolt up with everything bent out of shape.

So, how hard is swapping a fender?

What years will have trim that will match my ’80?

This is the first real collision my '80 has been involved in. It took 439K miles before it happened.

Thanks as always.

By the way, if you ever want to do something downright terrifying, try driving from Seattle to Portland at night in hard rain, with horrible wipers, and only one working headlight.

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If you listen to the radio in Portland, OR, you may know me as 'Portland's Favorite Soul Brother!'