I have a 1963 Ford F100 Unibody that im looking into fixin up and im looking for new floor pans and other parts i just wanna know where i can get floor pans for sure ? Thanks

 

After market floor pans are too thin and made out of what I would call Datsun metal. If the 18g pans never made it then the 24g aftermarket pans wont. I hammered repair panel sections out of 16 gauge and they weren't to tough to make. Just woop up a good anvil out of junk and start hammering. The other choice is to cut panels from a 61 to 64 cab floor of a donor truck but they are always rotted in the same place.

 

Really?

Avalible 61 to 64 and 65 66 4x4 pans are stamped from the same gauge metal as stock. Rick Allen of Carolina Classics makes them. Stock ford pans are between 18 and 20 gauge sheet stamping, it is the structural stamping that gives them strength. not the gauge.

Ricks pans are also a copy of the stock pan with all the stamped reinforcements.

Rick is a FTE vendor.

Garbz

 

That's cool, I have never had one of his pans. I have a "china" floor pan that a friend bought for his 67ish that I need to weld in for him. Its pretty light weight and flimsy. Light enough that you need to set a rock on it so the wind doesn't blow it away.

I suspected that all of the pans were the same stamping. Every other part you buy from the suppliers (Mac, DC, etc.) comes from the same dusty shelf.

 

Rick is the only one offering the pans for 61 to 64 step type floors. He also offers pans for the 65 66 low floor. Ricks pans are raw stampings with no paint to conceal the quality. Others that advertise them are reselling his pans.

There are others offering pans with he black coating but made in hochiminville.

Garbz

 

A guy on the Slick60's website by that goes by the name 67customcab had a complete rust-free Uni floor for sale.

 

Bob

Did you see the new 61 64 tie rod extenders that Speedway is offering? Reasonable too.

Garbz

 

^Me? Nah, I tossed that axle. Uni is on the back burner right now. Trying to get my 72 short bed back on the road after some bozo hammered me at a red light.