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The skins do not cut it I don't care how nice the rest of the car looks.





You and I have had this discussion before; I totally agree that the skins are not great and would love it if AMD made a full quarter panel, BUT I have the original quarter on the drivers side and a repop skin on the passenger side (albeit with the original scoop and marker light area welded in) and I defy you to tell the difference........but I paid ALOT of money in additional metal and bodywork to make that happen.

I looked for several years for an NOS passenger quarter to no avail....

Again; I'm not saying the skins are good, only that a skilled metal and body man can do a good job with one if he is given enough time to do so. My bodyman was obsessive enough that he wanted the light reflections in the paint to look the same from side to side and panel to panel....

Then again, I remember seeing an old timer european metal fabricator MAKE a quarter for a '56 Thunderbird from a flat sheet!

Dave




I thought the point of this post was to garner enough interest
or at least get a good guage for the amount interest that exists out there,
to hopefully try and prod AMD to produce 70
Coronet OEM Style quarter panels.

Not to rave about how nice a skin can be made to look!
or how nice it happens to look on your car.

I'm sure with enough time and money,
and yes a very skilled metal man,
you can get these to look as good as you want to pay for...

But let' face it If skins were so good,
then why did AMD, Goodmark and the other place (that did the charger quarter panels)
ante up and create factory style quarter panels for every other car except ours?

Why?,,, because skins SU&&!

The point is,
Why should the average guy pay 40-100 hours (or more) on labor to get a
skin shaped, sculpted, hammered, dollied, shrunk,
bondo'd,
sanded and formed to look like a factory one
When he could weld on a OEM style quarter in 16 hours?
(Thats the book time on the 70 Coronet crash sheets to do a complete R&R of a factory Quarter Panel)

Granted,
if you have the money to pay someone to do this,
God bless you!

If the skin looks gorgeous when its done...
God bless you a hundred times!

If your 70 Coronet project car just happens
to be one of the 1% of the remaining cars on
the face of the earth that just happens to have an excellent rear clip on it to start with...

God bless you a thousand times!
(go buy a lotto ticket while your at it cuz your a lucky man!)


For the rest of us...

Who don't have this kind of coin,
this kind of car
or access to gods gift to metal men...

Join us in prodding AMD to build us one!

All AMD needs to hear is 1 or 2 of us rave about
a skin and we will have ZERO chance of getting OEM Style quarters made.

(Perhaps Zero is really all the chance we have anyway,,regardless)...