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Hi, I am after a passengerside rear quarter panel for my 57 chevy panel van as the one on the vehicle is beyond repair. Anyone know where either a new, or good seconhand one can be obtained? Your help would be very much appreciated.

Welcome to the stovebolt, Tony! Sorry I cannot help you out though.

I don't know which part of your quarter panel needs repair. A friend of mine used a stepside fender to repair the quarter panel on his '57 Chevy panel.

Hi, The part of the quarterpanel that needs replacing is from the edge of the rear door to halfway along the wheel arch and from the bottom of the panel upto the bottom of the advertising panel. Quite a large section.

Try Wheelwright (Ray Stanley)

i have the same issue on my driver side, i checked here in my area on the cost of just the lower (rap-a-round) area (to have it fab'd).... a min of $500 just for the sheet metal work So i think i will use the lower rear part of a rear truck fender and work it in.

I am haveing the same problem I am restoring a 58 Civil Defence NAPCO. The Fleet side bed panels work but are quite expensive and none of the after market people make the repair panel's, I even tried going to Goodmark and talked to them and they said their was not a big demand for them and the stamping dies would cost over $150,000 + so you are UP the Creek so to say. In any event you will need to get a Second Morgage on the house and pay the Piper.Or like I did I rented the body man my shop and he is going to do the repair for some of the Rent.Hope your Project works out Sam.

Just B.T.T.
I'm also looking for quarter panel patchs for a 58 1/2 ton.
Need from just behind the door to the back edge. Right now its mostly plastic and that is breaking off as the rusty metal substrate that its stuck to falls apart

I have to agree, I think the 59/59 fleetside beds are the best source of a patch panel for these late 50 models of the suburbans and panel trucks. I currently have a 57 sub and a set of solid fleetside beds that will be used for patch work. Keep your eyes open on ebay as I have seen fleetside bed side available now and then.

Here is a set as we speak:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1958...itemZ110217545398QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

as someone who owns both TF panels and fleets, I say it's near criminal to destroy a useable [and limited production] fleet bed to do a repair on a panel that could as easily be done with flat sheets of body metal ... and certainly foolish to pay a thou for bedsides to save a few hundred $$ to a good bodyman

Tony - if you need to replace the whole quarter, the fleet bedside won't do it anyway, they're only useful for the molded part at the bottom 6" or so, and even there, don't correctly match the molding at the back of the wheel opening - a step fender will match part of that molding, then get some tin and learn bodywork

Bill

I had the same problem with my 59 Burb. The hardest part to fab is the lower edge. I bought a set of rockers and grafted to them. My metal working skills were minimal at the time. Someone who knows what they are doing could certainly make it look better. It turned out OK though. Rough example