<VV> Replacing rusty floors in convertibles

[Frank DuVal]

Tony Underwood wrote:

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> It's always been my experience that the rust-free car is the one you 
> would restore, NOT parting it to save something that's rusty.
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> Floors?    If you wanna get serious enough to start replacing floor 
> panels, you should be serious enough to buy about 20 bucks worth of 
> sheet metal hammers and dollies and shape your own floor panels for 
> those places that nobody else makes parts for, and no, there's nobody 
> reproducing the whole pan.   There *are* partial panels available 
> though, and it's really not that hard to hammer out custom replacement 
> panels to repair the areas for which nobody makes reproductions.
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> tony..  
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Which is why no one reproduces them yet. No demand. When the floor 
stampings became available, Cal Clark was wondering if he would sell 
enough to pay for the reproduction.

Frank DuVal