I emailed Carpenter about these fenders, here was their response.

The 1948-50 Truck rear fenders are still in the works and will probably not be available until
Late December or Early January, those part numbers are as follows
7C-16312 Right Side 1948-50 F-1 $800.00 ea.
7C-16313 Left SIde 1948-50 F-1 $800.00 ea.

 

Personally I don't think they'll sell a lot at those prices. Shipping will be near $200, too.

 

Probably the same reason the EMS front fenders never sold. Could have been other issues as well......any body ever see one of those EMS fenders? Seems somebody somewhere would have bought one......

 

It all depends, if you have the ability to repair your own fenders and the labor rate is zero your probably right. If you have to pay a body shop to repair the fenders at 50-70 per hour you might just be better off buying new ones. I will probably fix my fenders. Each one will require two to three patch panels and days if not weeks worth of work, oh well, that's the fun part of being retired.

 

Well, I'm not going to call bs exactly, but I will say that is interesting news. And while I don't claim to be the definitive expert here, I have been into these trucks since the 70's and I've never seen or heard of anyone selling steel fenders for the Bonus Built trucks. I can't imagine anyone putting out that kind of outlay for tooling and throwing it all away. Unless it was junk.

 

I was thinking the same thing when i read that. There are guys on here that have been doing this for years and no one has mentioned ever seeing these? Sounds fishy.