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I have been looking for a 1970 442 for a while and found one i like. The only problem is the car has quarter skins on it. From the pictures they appear to be done nicely and overall car looks great. My question is how many people have them on their car and how much do they impact the value?
Well the outside pictures looked nice - he sent me ones from inside the trunk and it looks like they tac welded them every 1/8th of an inch. I would have expected a stitch weld
Well the outside pictures looked nice - he sent me ones from inside the trunk and it looks like they tac welded them every 1/8th of an inch. I would have expected a stitch weld
Maybe not a stitch weld, but definitely should be tack welded solid. This car is just cheaply restored by a bad body shop or owner
My car has had both quarters replaced with skins. The guy who did the body work made the cuts up near the body line, and used panel bond. Making the cuts near a body line makes the panel stronger in my opinion, and has the added benefit of being much harder to see. I have seen cars with the cuts made straight across above the wheelhouse, it seems like those repairs never last as long.
The panel bond is stronger than the metal it’s being used to bond.
Just be very careful to inspect the quality of the panel installation. I've seen too many cars with these aftermarket quarters installed, and the joint telegraphs through the paint, especially when the car is parked in the sun. A proper installation is a welded butt joint with the weld ground down to the same thickness as the parent metal on both the inside and outside. Few cars have the panels installed this way. The overlap method just begs for problems due to differential expansion. I've also rarely been impressed by the detailing at the bottom of the panel. It's extremely easy to tell the quality of the installation by checking how the bottoms are integrated into the factory pinchweld. Usually it's very poorly done. The combination of the poor forming of these aftermarket panels and the poor quality of installation I've seen by most shops makes me run away from cars like this.
April 16th, 2020, 02:29 PM
