Re: Richter's '53 Caribbean

Posted by Richter12x2 On 2014/4/18 9:03:35

That's neat to know about it being an early car - I was out looking at the floor pans last night and feeling a bit overwhelmed. It looks like I'm going to have to recreate some of the structural bracing, or else cut it off the parts car and weld back onto mine. Luckily most of the way through I have one side but not another. For example on the first underbody brace, the passenger side is mostly good, but the driver's side is all rotted except where the bolt goes through. On the under seat brace that goes over the floor, the driver's side is there, but the passenger side is totally gone. The area under the door is totally missing on the passenger side as well, but mostly present on the driver's side. I can see a need to find a place that sells steel in bulk, else I'm going to be buying out Lowes pretty regular.

I had ordered all 6 of the floor pan sections, and the inner and outer rocker panels, so they should be in today and I can start to see what will get covered and not.



I checked on the drivers side door sills and the door itself, and I don't see any plates or stickers that would tell me more, unfortunately.