[DeTomaso] Rear Wheel house rust repair advice needed ..

[Christopher Kimball]

You're right about the square tubes vs. round tubes--I ordered a pair of replacement panels from a vendor a few months ago, and I specified they were for my '72, but when they arrived, the frame repair guy had to literally cut the square-ish tops and spread them to make them fit around the rounded original panel.  Plus, one was about a 1/2" off, which he also had to fix.

Sincerely,

Chris



> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:32:22 -0400
> To: andriykoisg at yahoo.ca; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Rear Wheel house rust repair advice needed ..
> 
> 
> In a message dated 6/21/09 14 33 53, andriykoisg at yahoo.ca writes:
> 
> 
> > 
> > And most importantly ... Who makes the best original looking patch repair 
> > panel?
> > 
> 
> What kind of hurry are you in?
> 
> I'm sending my NOS factory repair panel to Johnny Woods who will use it as 
> a template to make perfect reproductions; I'm sending it to him next week 
> and hopefully he'd be ready to go into productiion a few weeks later.   
> Perhaps you could wait that long?
> 
> The 1971 cars used square-ish tubes, and the Pantera vendors sell repair 
> panels which look fairly decent for those cars, but nothing at all like the 
> tubes on the later cars.
> 
> As to how much metal to remove, that judgement is up to you.   I'd be 
> fairly conservative and remove at least an inch or two higher than where the rust 
> is....
> 
> Mike (been there, done that, had to replace the engine wheelhouse!)
> 
> 
> 
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