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Body panels...
My 67 project will be arriving on Monday from the transport company and i'm just planning ahead on purchasing some body panels.
My question is am I better off locating nice clean used panels or buying aftermarket panels? I know original panels may need some body work and there and the aftermarket may or may not. But how is the fitment of the aftermarket ones? Is their a company that seems better than another ( LMC, DC ETC)? I guess are there any advantages of original panels over repo?
I will be looking at needing fenders, 1 door, inner fenders, core support, tailgate and possibly a hood
Thanks all!
My question is am I better off locating nice clean used panels or buying aftermarket panels? I know original panels may need some body work and there and the aftermarket may or may not. But how is the fitment of the aftermarket ones? Is their a company that seems better than another ( LMC, DC ETC)? I guess are there any advantages of original panels over repo?
I will be looking at needing fenders, 1 door, inner fenders, core support, tailgate and possibly a hood
Thanks all!
Tuned
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I'm going to say that Original panels are probably a thicker gage steel, made at the Rouge in Detroit rather than Chinese stuff. I guess it depends on what you are wanting when you're done. I don't know for a fact though on the thickness comparison...
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imo. always go with Ford stuff if it,s easy to get. also try flashbackf-100. i have heard good things about them. they sell O.E.M. fenders, doors, etc. not sure about how much they would be. do not use LMC for anything unless they are the only one who has what you need. their patch panels are junk. do not ask me how i know this.
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My 67 project will be arriving on Monday from the transport company and i'm just planning ahead on purchasing some body panels.
My question is am I better off locating nice clean used panels or buying aftermarket panels? I know original panels may need some body work and there and the aftermarket may or may not. But how is the fitment of the aftermarket ones? Is their a company that seems better than another ( LMC, DC ETC)? I guess are there any advantages of original panels over repo?
I will be looking at needing fenders, 1 door, inner fenders, core support, tailgate and possibly a hood
Thanks all!
My question is am I better off locating nice clean used panels or buying aftermarket panels? I know original panels may need some body work and there and the aftermarket may or may not. But how is the fitment of the aftermarket ones? Is their a company that seems better than another ( LMC, DC ETC)? I guess are there any advantages of original panels over repo?
I will be looking at needing fenders, 1 door, inner fenders, core support, tailgate and possibly a hood
Thanks all!
I'd rather weld together two OEM German VW fenders to get one good one than deal with a POS Chinese reproduction that cost mucho dinero. I'm sure Ford stuff is the same way. In fact that's pretty much my plan of attack on my 69, but I haven't gotten to the point of major body work yet.
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My 67 project will be arriving on Monday from the transport company and i'm just planning ahead on purchasing some body panels.
My question is am I better off locating nice clean used panels or buying aftermarket panels? I know original panels may need some body work and there and the aftermarket may or may not.
But how is the fitment of the aftermarket ones? Is their a company that seems better than another ( LMC, DC ETC)? I guess are there any advantages of original panels over repo?
I will be looking at needing fenders, 1 door, inner fenders, core support, tailgate and possibly a hood
My question is am I better off locating nice clean used panels or buying aftermarket panels? I know original panels may need some body work and there and the aftermarket may or may not.
But how is the fitment of the aftermarket ones? Is their a company that seems better than another ( LMC, DC ETC)? I guess are there any advantages of original panels over repo?
I will be looking at needing fenders, 1 door, inner fenders, core support, tailgate and possibly a hood
The quality varies from one repro parts seller to another. Carpenter is probably the best, LMC the worst.Front fenders, inner fender aprons, radiator (core) support (*), Styleside tailgate, hood are the same: 1967/72 F100/350.
1967 F100/750 doors are 1967 only! 1968/72 F100/750 doors are different.
*TWO different radiators supports, the support used with the Super Cooling radiator has a larger opening radius.
I would think you could find nice rust free sheet metal in AZ & NM
Flashback F100's is located in Reidsville NC .. The owner drives thru the west (AZ-CA-NM-NV) at least once a year buying used sheet metal from junkyards.
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Hey NumberDummy, I don't mean to hijack a thread but I was planning to swap some dry doors out of a clean '72 into my rusty turd of a '69. I planned to take them apart, spray inside with rust encapsulator, clean then up and paint them with Rust-Oleum, and swap the interior pieces and build tag for my 69 onto them then bolt them on. Am I missing some critical info?
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Hey NumberDummy, I don't mean to hijack a thread but I was planning to swap some dry doors out of a clean '72 into my rusty turd of a '69. I planned to take them apart, spray inside with rust encapsulator, clean then up and paint them with Rust-Oleum, and swap the interior pieces and build tag for my 69 onto them then bolt them on.
Am I missing some critical info?
No.
Am I missing some critical info?
No.
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Go with the original stuff as much as possible. I got cab corners from Dennis Carpenter, and they didn't line up well at all. Luckily, I found a set of cab corners from a buddy that cut them off for me, and I used the DC corners to patch the small areas on the factory corners I got.
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