Headlight bucket repair ideas

[ddubois]

I'm weighing different ideas for repairing some fender rust below my headlight buckets that are history. One idea is to weld in a new clean fender area a couple inches back from the bucket perimeter and then install new buckets. My question is whether later 74-89 fenders have the same shape around the headlights as my 71 fender?

Thanks,

[KevinP73]

There are only minor differnces between the two but nothing that would prevent you from using the later buckets. Unless you're concerned about originality.