tabco panels
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From: NE Texas
Looks like that stuff was bent on a manual bending brake by eyeball. Couple hundred bucks at Harbor Freight and you could turn out similar in your garage. Could be made in the USA like their label says, but the overall metal work is crap. Just MHO. The steel itself is pre-plated,
so it is not strictly raw steel (think of it as similar to what they make computer case lids from) but you will for sure get rust along the shear edges unless you treat/encapsulate them somehow.
so it is not strictly raw steel (think of it as similar to what they make computer case lids from) but you will for sure get rust along the shear edges unless you treat/encapsulate them somehow.
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From: Henderson, NE
I too bought replacement floor panel for my '76 and always heard that they were thinner. I checked with the metal gauge and they were in fact the same gauge as factory. I just cut up the replacement and kept as much of the original sheetmetal as I could. I ended up cutting pieced out of a donor truck cab that I got just for the radiator support.
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