That’s my next thought, but I’m not sure when I’ll have time to swing by a junkyard.Find a Treasure Yard vehicle like yours, see how it's mounted on that one.
Are the bolt (rivet???) holes just a little off--as if the bracket needed to be bent/distorted a bit to line-up? Or are the holes so far off that there's no way it could be attached using the existing holes?
The holes seem like they’re completely off from where the bracket should mount. Even at the spot that I have in the photo, I think the top of the shock would be way too low compared to what I believe it should be sitting at, if that makes any sense at all