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58 fenders are actually alittle wider and skirt down more on the side. Also they use a \"wire tube\" at the bottom of the headlight bucket for the headlight wires instead of the later style ruber tube that goes in the headlight bucket closer to the top. If you weld a wire tube onto a later style fender and run one later german fender and one early German fender your car will apear to be higher on the side with the later fender, because of the difference in shape from early to late. there are also subtle differences in fenders all the way through 58-66. Saying that they are all the same simply isnt true and you are boardering on Jackub-ism by saying that....
Early front fenders are the same true shape up to 1959 or the last of the wire tube fenders as far as the true shape is concerned. As trayle said, there is a difference. Even bullet fenders are truly the same shape with just the bullet added to them for the US market as fenders up to 1959 even though 58-59 have peanut turnsignals. Early front fenders also have the \"flair\" that contours into the running board at the bottom. There are differences as in the turn signals but bassicaly the same over all fender shape. I can spot an incorrect fender from a mile away. I always see early cars with 60 and later fenders in magazines. The worst is when someone tries to make a bullet fender out of a 63 fender to match the one correct bullet already on the car.
