Deer hit rebuild restore.

[D.Ehinger]

Hi.. I'm slowly working on the T, after the deer hit. I'm no longer mad at the fuc@#ing deer. ok. Just a little. I'm working through all the "while you are in there" scenarios. Over and over in my brain. The car has too many non original parts to consider going fully back to stock. Although I do wish to remain as close as possible. This morning I've started to take things apart. As I do I'll post questions and pictures. Thanks in advance for opinions and advice.

The deer hit me in the right front and bounced down the whole side of the car. The car had a full color change at one point, and my suspicion is that it was also hit once on the right side. The front fender does not quite look right for a number of reasons and there is evidence of previous repair. I'm assuming we won't know the extent of repair on the fender until we remove all the old paint. Is there any way to tell if the fender is original? If it is, and it's repairable, I'd prefer that to a new fender.

Here are my first group of questions and pictures.

1. The corner light does not fit well. This is not deer hit related. Does this look like a fitment issue (brackets) or does the fender contour look wrong? There is way to much of the top of the light sticking out past were the metal ends.
2. If we choose to fix the fender, I assume the light bucket is welded into the fender? Does this need to be cut out to correctly fix the rust shown in the picture?
3. Should this horn grill be sent out for repair and re-chrome or are the after market replacements just easier to buy and install?

Thank you.