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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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66 GTO

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68sd wrote:

66 GTO

yep 66-67 GTO LeMan, Tempest.?

 



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yep....66-67 GTO, I never would have used them on my 67 being that they make a nice molded 1/4 for them now.

I always thought the 64 fullsize and the 66-67 GTO shared the same basic shape...

those flat stamps were soo old ,, they were made in CANADA !!! how about that ! LOL ! sticker was still on the back.

you guys know your cars alright !!

I really was amazed how well they fit without too much massaging. yeah the wheel well shape doesn't swoop back...but new life for the ol girl .

my brother named the car ' Mary' !!

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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!

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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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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 firsthump.gif?

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Resurrection Mary , savings his soul...

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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More power to him! It's great to immerse yourself in something you enjoy, and forget your problems!

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