67/68/69 cuda dilemma
great work as always :thumbsup:
it's a shame that so much work is needed though to fit what is supposed to be a 'correct' part :(
neil.
Thanks Neil, but I think these were made to be hack job fix panels. The front and rear lips actually overlapped the stock skins. Because of the oversize, I think these were made to just pop rivet over top of a rusted panel. This is why I kept the original top, front, and rear of the original skins and flanged them. Then cut the goodmark panels back. I am lucky it fits well in most of the key areas. If all I have to do is deal with some non stock seams, and move a couple wheel house lips, well oh well lol.
The AMD skins are fastback only. They fit really well in all areas but at $700 per side plus about $200 truck freight, and I would have to still cut the tops off and make a non stock seam to fit a coupe anyways, I just couldent justify the cost. These ran me $137 each plus truck freight to be a total of $300 shipped for a pair to my doorstep. So $1600 vs $300. For that price, I can make em fit, and use that $1300 difference on something else this poor thing desperately needs. Most will never know how much I had to do to make it look right once done.
I did something similar about 26 years ago with a 1960 El Camino I redid. Had to use lower quarter patch sections made for a 1960 Bel Air. Trunk drops and wheel arches were rotted thru. No repops available. I made cardstock templates to fab the pieces. Then had to make all that under structure from scratch. I hung the skins first. Used clecos so I could pin it, and remove it quickly, then with it temp pinned place, I built up my cardboard templates to fit, then transferred them to steel sheet. Only needed one set of templates, as I used them to make identical pieces for both sides.