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Tech Question
Magnus Wallner, Stockholm, Sweden, 1972 Plymouth cuda 340
First of all, thank you for all your help so far. I would never have gotten this far without you and MA.
This is more of a resto-question than a tech-question but here goes...
My 'Cuda is undergoing major body repair and so far I've changed all
floorpans and some parts of the frame. I'm now about to change the rear
quarters, outer wheelhouse and trunk extensions as well as the tail panel. I
have new repro skins for the quarters but I also have a pair of complete
quarters from a '70 'Cuda that are in decent shape and I wonder if I should
use them instead of the new skins since I've heard that they sometimes don't
fit very well. Any opinion on that?
My trunk floor is now as good as new. Can I remove the old rotten quarters, tail panel, wheelhouse and change everything at once or should I take it piece by piece to prevent the entire tail from warping? If piece by piece, what should I start with?
Regards from Sweden, Magnus
Magnus, the current crop of repro quarter "skins" fit reasonably well. The best plan is usually to section them and only install what's needed. If you have the patience, a perfect cut can allow a butt-weld that, once ground flush, is virtually invisible.
But if you can wait, full factory-spec quarters are in the works, in fact, Goodmark already has them in stock for Challengers and '68 / '69 Plymouth B-bodies. And it seems a shame to "sacrifice" a pair of '70 quarters on a -- no insult intended -- lowly '72!
(Really, I'm not disparaging your '72, it's just that '70s and '71s are abviously so much more valuable, at least if optioned to the max.)
Removing everything (except the rails, obviously) is fine, but the car should be supported in a way that doesn't induce flex or twist -- on a perefectly level floor, with equal-height stands under the rails in the area of the rear sping front mounts.
Rick
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