full floors & trunk

[72Fourspeed]

A friend called to see if I was still jonesing for a postcar. He knows of a 64 needing floors & a trunkpan. What is the rough $$ to have a pro do the work ? I think it is beyond my ability & I do not want to either screw it up Or get buried in a car I can not afford to repair. Just curious what everyone thinks. I have not seen car or pix of it. Just going on his opinion & want to be prepared for the worst. Thanx,Don.

 

[696pack]

I have never done one but knowing that to do it right so it is not detectable you have to drill out the factory spot welds with a special drill bit and can expect to go through several of them. Then when installing the new floors you have to "reproduce" the look of the original spot welds. If these things are important to you then make sure you find someone that KNOWS HOW to do it correctly.

 

[northerndave]

If it needs floors and trunk....

It's more likely than not that it needs a bunch more too.

Rockers are subject, frame rails and support pieces, rear crossmember, trunk extensions, lower quarters, wheel house to quarter lip... and many more possibilities.

It all tends to go hand and hand.

Sadly.

I've never seen one rot the floors and trunk without a bunch of other stuff getting the cancer too.

 

[wannadrag]

Just went through replacing a 70 RR trunk pan,lots and lots of work and am halfway on the floor pans.There has to be at least 150 spot welds in the trunk pan alone.

 

[northerndave]

155 holes in my 69 B-body trunk pan.

And that was with cutting the front 8" off the one piece trunk floor replacement panel.

 

[Propwash]

Between my 68 Coronet, a 71 Roadrunner trunk and the trunk I did on my 69', I spent at least 12 hours from start to finish on each.....At an average shop rate of $75 bucks an hour, your looking at $900 bucks in labor and then the pan cost on top of that. That is with no cost yet for finish work (seam sealer/sanding/priming/painting...$500-600?) Floors would run about the same.

But like Dave said..generally there is a whole lot of other issues that typically go along with having rot in those areas..

And like 696pack mentioned about going show/concourse level appearance, you might as well double that price. Serious restoration shops that do that type of work have a real good idea on what's at stake with that level of restoration, in turn spending lots of capital in research, training, equipment, facilities. That overhead or so called "premium" is rolled down through the higher labor rates.

 

[72Fourspeed]

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If it seems to good to be true.......... Thanx for the info. I probably can afford the car, just not the repairs ! LOL.

 

[northerndave]

As far as the level of skill required, I can't think of anything better than a set of floor pans or a trunk floor repair for a person to school themselves with. It's a great project for getting your feet wet with this kind of work.

But you really have to expect more cancer in other areas if the floors are shot. (I would expect it anyways)

 

[daredevil]

When we drilled out my 66 nets floor pans and it started snowballing I found another west tx body to use.

 

[moparpoor]

Early b bodies tend to rust from the bottom up do to the water leaks.It is very possible that is a good builder needing floor pans with minor other repairs.You are looking at $640.00 for the front floor pan alone plus the part.That doesn't include interior removal or other needed parts to be removed.Realistic price will be more like $1800.00 to replace the floors front to back and including some patch work in the footwell area and around the wheelhouses.Again no r&i of interior,materials,or paint work included.The job is just labor intesive period,especially if the vehicle has not been stripped in one way or another.

 

[66_B_Body4ever]

Very difficult to give you any idea without seeing the car or pictures... get underneath the car with a pick hammer and do some light tapping if the owner will allow you. Without stripping the car down it helps identify what is solid and what needs replacing. Good metal has a good solid sound to it, rusty stuff sounds dead and will dent easily...