What's your opinion?
Posted by Fish'n Jim On 2017/2/3 10:07:52
This '49 club sedan (hemmings this month) is reported as a original survivor*. It's been scraped in this panel behind door and recently "rattle canned" over.
I was looking at the pictures for authenticity and I find the same thing on my "original" car. The quarter panel overlaps the rocker panel at the door bottom radius corner ("B" pillar). The door fit suffers terribly. The quarter sticks out 1/4-3/8" on the lower half. An invite for stone chips.
Is this common to all as normal poor factory fit or the way panel replacement was done?
Why I ask, mine looks the same. I know my car was lightly "wrecked" / body repairs several times. Could be a patch panel or they fit the rocker panel under the quarter during those repairs but quarter won't stick out, if that way...unless you readjust the door poorly. Body work 101, circa early 50's, you would lead(Pb) over gaps like this and flush file/grind. Unsealed lap joints invite crevice corrosion and don't paint over well.
I'm cutting those parts out and redo w/ flush panel fit. One side is worse than the other on mine. It looks bad to me, but I know factory fit wasn't that good in the day either. I'd seen a lot of panel repairs back in the day living in snow country. My cuz and friends used to do them.
*- I think it's an older restoration - just not known**. If it had been stored this long, they don't look quite so good without major detail. It'd have to been sealed up in a bubble and they didn't do that 50 years ago.
** - Caveat Emptor. Last one I saw sell in this condition(but authenicated) was $7500 less. Tell a story - ask more $$.
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I was looking at the pictures for authenticity and I find the same thing on my "original" car. The quarter panel overlaps the rocker panel at the door bottom radius corner ("B" pillar). The door fit suffers terribly. The quarter sticks out 1/4-3/8" on the lower half. An invite for stone chips.
Is this common to all as normal poor factory fit or the way panel replacement was done?
Why I ask, mine looks the same. I know my car was lightly "wrecked" / body repairs several times. Could be a patch panel or they fit the rocker panel under the quarter during those repairs but quarter won't stick out, if that way...unless you readjust the door poorly. Body work 101, circa early 50's, you would lead(Pb) over gaps like this and flush file/grind. Unsealed lap joints invite crevice corrosion and don't paint over well.
I'm cutting those parts out and redo w/ flush panel fit. One side is worse than the other on mine. It looks bad to me, but I know factory fit wasn't that good in the day either. I'd seen a lot of panel repairs back in the day living in snow country. My cuz and friends used to do them.
*- I think it's an older restoration - just not known**. If it had been stored this long, they don't look quite so good without major detail. It'd have to been sealed up in a bubble and they didn't do that 50 years ago.
** - Caveat Emptor. Last one I saw sell in this condition(but authenicated) was $7500 less. Tell a story - ask more $$.
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