Corbin fairing

I have acquired an old-style Corbin Road King fairing.  Looked all over the world--literally.  Finally found one used from a Harley classified board.

Fitting this to a Valkyrie presents some considerable engineering challenges.  This fairing was designed to work with the Road King nacelle, which provides two external mounting points for the included Corbin spot light ("passing lamps" in Harleyspeak) relocator brackets, shown below.  The mounting points are shown with the red marks:

       

 

         

          

The fairing has long threaded rods that slide into the tubes welded onto the spotlight brackets.  The bottom has tabs that will rest on top of the bottom triple clamp.

Here is the main engineering problem:  What can I use to attach the mounts to the forks?  They need to attach in roughly the position shown below.

                   

Although a bolt-on solution would be ideal, it needs to look nice.  I am replacing the Headlight with a Headwind$ light and adding Headwind$ spot lamps.  I don't want to ruin the look of $1,000 worth of lamps and $650 worth of triple trees with some cheesy clamps.  Additionally, I would like to retain the option of running without the fairing and not having some butt-ugly clamps left behind.

Memphis Shades windshield clamps would maybe work, but they are too cheesy.  Memphis Shades lowers clamps look great, but they do not allow mounting on the centerline of the fork tube-they are offset to the front or rear of the tube.

The Headwinds 54mm clamps are getting there.  Nice clean look, drilling and tapping along the centerline possible.  Two problems: (1) the inevitable rough interface between the trimmed, drilled, and tapped square section and the bolt which will be threading into it (there will be a sleeve around the bolt).  (2) the price -- these things appear to be around $50 each.  Ouch.

Any chance of welding some kind of bosses to the fork tubes?  If this would work, I would be fine with it, as I am planning to chrome the tubes anyway.

Any help would be appreciated.

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