Good day
I am interested in knowing if anyone has any information on full rear quarter panels for a 69 442 convertible.
From anything I see they aren't available?
Anyone have an nos set they would part with?
Or if there are repro full quarters I'd appreciate any information.
Thx Ken

 

There are no repro full quarters for any 1969 Cutlass body style. Good used OEM sheetmetal from the desert southwest is your best option.

 

Usually just the outer wheel houses and wheel lips on the 1/4’s are bad. Just use hardtop repro panels and piece in what you need

 

That's what the body shop did for my '68 convertible - piece in a reproduction hardtop quarter panel for the bad original panel that was all torn up. It came out well.

Randy C.

Driver quarter looking forward.

Driver quarter looking aft. Note the lip they left of the original quarter at the peak. That'w where they attached the reproduction hardtop quarter.

After the reproduction hardtop quarter was attached.

 

I would only remove what’s bad. You can’t easily cut to the peak line and piece in a hardtop 1/4 into a convertible because the body lines are different

this is what I did:

 

I restored a 70 Impala convertible , using 70 hardtop NOS quarter panels. I did the same technique as rcorrigan5, kept the convert's upper body line, as the hardtop's led up into the roof. Just be careful cutting and trimming the panels to meet, and extra care in welding them.

 

Its actually works out fine when you cut at the peak of the quarter, I put the stainless trim in place and scratched a line for a guide to cut. This way the weld line will be covered by the stainless trim once back in place.