Well, as most of you know, they do not make the panels anymore. Here is what I ended up doing for a project I'm helping my brother with.
I sold him a 64 hardtop I had started fixing a few years back, prettty solid car other than the usual 1/4 rot.
I used panel glue , built innner structure, and shaped to fit. These are old flat stamp panels that I had gotten with another project 15 years ago.
They were not for the 64 Pontiac fullsize, they are for a pontiac car however, lets see if anyone pics out what they were intended for. I didn't re work the wheel well opening, I did however re work the lower body lines fore and aft. body work is just roughed in , final fill and blocking to come.
remember, this is not a correct restoration, we just wanted to clean the car up on the cheap and make a nice driver out of it for my brother!! ( he likes blue ?? )
comments PLEASE !! take some guesses on the donar panels , they are pontiac.
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later...rog
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I'm a collector...not a builder!!Located in sunny central Saskatchewan at the lakehead!
Well shame on you Roger for not getting the wheel well shape to be swooped back! LOL! To be honest with you? I had to call up a picture of a '64 just to compare your work to see what the deal was and I was just BLOWN AWAY! At a glance you'd never know they weren't '64 panels unless yer a die-hard '64 fanatic! Now, your next mission should you decide to accept it is, to come up with replacement panels for the '69 Parisienne, 2+2 and Grande Parisienne models. Good luck Roger and let us know your findings. And one last thing before I end this posting, it blows me away HOW good of a job you did on your brother's car. What a talent and a half man! Well done!
Thanks for my next challenge LOL !! and thanks for the compliments. that was my first experience with panel glue, very slick stuff., but like anything else, patience is a virtue.
I have a panel flanger, so cut and flanged the original, then off and on a dozen times till I was happy with the fit. run all the screws in , the remove and glue.
the end result is a skim of fiberglass filler, then a skim of bondo to get things blocked out.
we spent about 20 hours to put on the 2 panels, IF I would have welded them, run that # up to about 70 hours or better .
on this car , it made sense and now that I'm comfortable with the panel glue,,I'll do more stuff like that.
OH,, and when I restored my 62 Parisienne, I used the patch panel for above the box on a 73-85 chevy 1/2 ton. it had the right contour to creat my patch. I butt welded those in.
thanks again for the vote of confidence !!
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later...rog
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I'm a collector...not a builder!!Located in sunny central Saskatchewan at the lakehead!
Great work Roger! I was going to guess '64 Catalina panels. Has anyone out there tried putting a '64 Cat panel on a '64 Parisienne?
Why is he calling it Mary? His first?
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'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
my bro was going through a rough patch, the 64 has given him focus and hope and things are getting better for him. He needed postive influences , and getting back into the cars has helped him greatly !!
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later...rog
AADD supporting member !!
I'm a collector...not a builder!!Located in sunny central Saskatchewan at the lakehead!
More power to him! It's great to immerse yourself in something you enjoy, and forget your problems!
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Prince Edward Island
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.