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Originally Posted by 214Chevelle
Correct!! If the fenders were stamped by GM in 1993, but the fender model is for a 69 they are NOS. New Old Stock doesn't mean every single part was made in 1969 only and none thereafter. It simply means that are part is new, but the stock is old due to the part being discontinued and no longer being made by the manufacturer. The "Old" part doesn't mean it is 30, 40, 50 years old. If a part was made in 2008 and is no longer made by the manufacturer, then it is now new, old stock and it is only 5 years old. Once a manufacturer decides to not produce anymore of a specific part that's when it's considered "old stock" because it could sit on the shelves for months to years due to it not being much of a need for that part. Which may be why the manufacturer decided to stop production in the part to begin with. There are other factors in there as well, like when GM breaks down the tooling to stop porduction on a specific part, etc.
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I can see GM making parts into the 70's, but were they really continuing to produce sheet metal for these cars in the 90's? I would more likely believe that they were sitting on a shelf somewhere rather than produced twenty something years after the last one rolled off the assembly line. Either way, as long as the fit is good, what does it matter?