[FC] Re: <VV> Can This Quarter Panel Be Saved?

[Merv and/or Loretta]

Not an expert by any stretch of the imagination... but I would say that if
there is no rust, fix it. A body shop has pullers that will remove most of
the offending dent, some outstanding body shops have high speed disk
machines that can be used to heat high spots then slap a cold wet cloth on
the panel and shrink the metal. A good operator can return a nasty panel to
good as new with little or no bondo....!
Merv Krull
Salmon Arm BC
62 GB "Ratfink"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Underwood" <tonyu@roava.net>
To: "* Greenbrier Goon *" <greenbriergoon@hotmail.com>;
<virtualvairs@skiblack.com>; <corvanatics@corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 9:13 AM
Subject: [FC] Re: <VV> Can This Quarter Panel Be Saved?


> At 05:01 AM 7/13/2003 +0000, * Greenbrier Goon * wrote:
> >Hey everybody:
> >
> >Any of you who have good body work skills please take a look at this:
> >http://www.c-zone.net/northgte/FC-quarter.jpg
> >
> >This is the passenger side quarter panel on my '63 Greenbrier.  It has
> >looked this way since I bought it in 1994. A previous owner side-swiped
> >somthing and damaged both side cargo doors and the rear quarter panel.
> >
> >The time has come to fix up the body on this van. Not having any good
body
> >work skills, I don't know if this can be fixed or if it should be
> replaced.
>
> If you managed to turn up a NOS replacement panel or perhaps a good used
> one that hadn't been carved from a donor vehicle with a pick axe, of
course
> it would likely be best to replace the damaged sheet metal...  but it
would
> require some MIG welding etc,
>
> In lieu of replacement, I'd not see a lot of terrible heartache in
> repairing the dented panel since it doesn't look *that* bad.   I've fixed
> worse but if you can turn up a replacement panel, do it.
>
>
> >Most of the damage is toward the rear of the panel, but there is a small
> >crease running almost the entire length of the panel.
>
> Noted...   and it's not all that easy to get behind that panel to work the
> crease either.
>
>
> >Maybe someone who knows body work can give me some advice.  I wan't this
van
> >to look really good without any half-assed body work.
>
> Poll the lists, see if someone has a parts FC that might donate a good
> panel...?
>
>
> >I have located one almost perfect cargo door and one not-so perfect one.
The
> >not-so-perfect one has more rust than I originally suspected when I
bought
> >it.  I may be in need of a better one to replace that one.
>
> How bad is the damaged door that this rusty door is to replace?   Got a
> photo?
>
>
> tony..
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