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Re: Body panels for my Sprite

To: froggi@cdsnet.net, BritishCarMan@aol.com
Subject: Re: Body panels for my Sprite
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:17:14 EST
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
In a message dated 3/7/2001 1:10:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
froggi@cdsnet.net writes:

<<  Hey list. I figured up the cost of all the body panels I will need to 
restore
 > the body on my Sprite minus the bonnet. Through VB it will run just under
 > $650.00. >>

Jamie:

One other thing.  In working on my Sprite, I had some panels that had rust in 
places, and I was able to take flat sheet metal and make a piece to replace 
the rusted out part of the car.  I made a "brake" out of 2 heavy pieces of 
angle iron for any pieces that needed an "L" bent into them.   That has saved 
me a bunch of money because it kept me from having to buy the entire panel.  
I bought only those pieces that would have been difficult or impossible for 
me to duplicate and patch.  Also, I have cut good panels out of scrap parts 
cars, like the inner rear fenders on both sides.  I took a sawzall and cut 
the solid panels out, cut out the rusted areas in my restorable, and welded 
the good used panels in.  I bought floorboards, Outer rocker panels, part of 
a crossmember, A-Posts and skins, rear bulkheads, and rear fenders, plus some 
of the blanking pieces.  A lot of the footwell and inner rockers I used flat 
sheet metal to fabricate and weld in.

--David C.

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