Officer Higgins
Well-Known Member
- How many of you like myself have vintage mopar with the original sheet metal?
I agree, how much Taiwanese replacement metal affects value ?
Yikes! That is one I would never consider buying after it is done. Problem is that some poor sap won't have any idea what it started out as 20 years from now.That's a loaded question. It takes a special kind of skill, knowledge & patience to remove & replace welded on body panels properly. There are some people here with tremendous talent who can handle this type of work, but for every one with talent, there's 15 more who are way over their head, especially when I see pictures of what's left of an unrecognizable B-body on jackstands in someone's garage minus the rotted quarters, floors, frame rails, wheelwells, etc., and it makes me wonder how bad all of those panels are going to line up.
Here's a perfect example:
Someone on dc.com is actually going to try to "restore" this heap....
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Graveyard carsThat's a loaded question. It takes a special kind of skill, knowledge & patience to remove & replace welded on body panels properly. There are some people here with tremendous talent who can handle this type of work, but for every one with talent, there's 15 more who are way over their head, especially when I see pictures of what's left of an unrecognizable B-body on jackstands in someone's garage minus the rotted quarters, floors, frame rails, wheelwells, etc., and it makes me wonder how bad all of those panels are going to line up.
Here's a perfect example:
Someone on dc.com is actually going to try to "restore" this heap....
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What's to restore ? only rust and bend metalThat's a loaded question. It takes a special kind of skill, knowledge & patience to remove & replace welded on body panels properly. There are some people here with tremendous talent who can handle this type of work, but for every one with talent, there's 15 more who are way over their head, especially when I see pictures of what's left of an unrecognizable B-body on jackstands in someone's garage minus the rotted quarters, floors, frame rails, wheelwells, etc., and it makes me wonder how bad all of those panels are going to line up.
Here's a perfect example:
Someone on dc.com is actually going to try to "restore" this heap....
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Thats really great job on the desk!!!!I have two 70 Charger R /Ts from California, and both needed lower quarters and dutch panels. My purple Charger wasn't really rusty, but when I removed the passengers side rear quarter because it was side swiped,and there was so much sand and debris between the quarter and the lower rocker panel, wheel house and trunk extension, that I replaced both rear quarters and the dutch panel. The sand and debris between the panels probably wouldn't be an issue in the California desert where the car came from, but in the damp New England environment once it gets wet,it will rot the rear quarters on your freshly painted car. The panels I cut off the car were not good enough to use on the car, but were too good to throw away, so I built my desk from them! View attachment 653240