Hard to find surround panel for 1966 Toro. Excellent piece but not Pebble Beach perfect. Sharp crisp edges instead of the rounded lost detail you will get when you try to rechrome yours. Ask me how I know. This panel has minimal shelf wear and no original box. I counted I believe 8 pits on the passenger side lower edge that goes under the tail lens. Center and right side very clean. Probably better than most any 66 out there except maybe a lifelong southwest low mileage original car. The hardware package is still with the panel. Primer is still mostly intact. This will need a wood box to ship. I have zero idea what it will cost to build it and ship. Pickup is clearly preferred as NONE of the national shippers will truly insure the part if it gets destroyed. Again, ask me how I know. So..... I am willing to deliver or meet within a few hundred miles to ensure this doesn’t happen. I didn’t hunt this panel down, store it for 10 years and decide to sell it only to let Fedex or UPS wreck it. Asking $2500 for this piece. Drop me a line if serious. Cheers.

 

Btt

 

Reduced to $2100.

 

For those who know what they're looking at, and how these are impossible to rechrome, $2100 is a good deal esp with Pat's delivery option.

Pat, have you put this in Toronado Owners' Association classifieds?

This part is a big reason I've never gone after a 66 or 67 Toro.

 

I thought about it but figured someone would put a wanted ad. There had been a wanted ad and I emailed them and no response so I figured they weren’t serious or will find out when they drop the K+ that it cost me to do mine how poorly they look afterward. Add in the shipping costs back and forth and this does end up being a good price. The rear panel can really make the *** end on these cars with nos lenses. Those lenses at least come up from time to time. If you ever see the Markowski 66 red Toro restored more like the preproduction model than a regular one, you notice this. It’s a fantastic car and it kind of drops the ball on the rear panel. I tried going kind of cheap with a company that said they could do it and not lose the detail at $700 almost 15 years ago. Sucked. They blamed me for sending a poor core. I finally found a really nice AZ panel that for a driver would have popped but not a show car. That one cost me $1400 plus shipping to and fro CA a few years later. It came out much better but still slightly rounded the perimeter. I put that on the 66 I bought from Bill Crawford’s estate. I will post a photo of that. It looks very close with the nos lenses I put in that I was hoping for. Most any shop that really does high quality work will tell you it’s not going to come out like a new panel due to the **** potmetal GM used to begin with. There is a shop in Chicago called The Finishing Touch that MIGHT be able to do it as I’ve seen some amazing reworked grilles from there that truly look perfect but it’s not like you get a refund if you don’t like it. They shot me an almost 3K estimate as a starting point several years ago. Enough to choke a horse.

 

Here is about as nice as a rechromed panel can get. I think it shows the loss in detail edges.