How to repair messed up fork ears?

DrMcNasty

New Member
So this is what the ones look like on my project bike. Someone hammered them in and bent the snot out of them to put a front number plate of some sort on it.
I think these are too far gone to do anything with so my questions are:
1. If I fab up something new and weld it to the fork, will that hold?
2. Are these straight off the side edge of the tube?

I am thinking some simple metal should be all I need since these don't appear to be threaded holes. I figure I can throw a bushing of some sort between the light bucket and the ear if needed.

The blue ones are what I am working with but I am using this orange one as a reference for the direction of them from the tubes.
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