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| | | | Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 255 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 255 | Of course I would prefer to get patch panels from a donor but for those rare pieces I can't find at the junk yard.... Any recommendations for patch panel sources for my 1950 3800 1-ton? Looking to do the cab corners, rear fender fronts, some of the floor pan. I'm sure all of the sources are great, but any better than the others for quality and duplication of the originals?
Thx - Bruce | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 |
Bruce,
Pickup cab?
Patch panels would be the same as used on 1/2 ton trucks.
Patch panels usually come primed gray or "primed"/coated with a black EDP (E-paint, or Electrophoretically Deposited Paint).
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 255 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 255 | Yep, pickup cab corners, and the front of the box fenders. I restored a 1970 PU a few years back and found that some patch-panel sources were a little more "true" to the originals, some produced items made of heavier gauge steel. Trying to avoid the trial-and-error method.
Of course, I don't to want to endorse any source over another, just looking for some advice. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 |
Bruce,
Getting good patch panels is a risky business. Even if someone reports having obtained good panels, vendors switch suppliers and you cannot be sure of receiving the same part.
I usually buy panels from Jim Carter and from Classic Parts.
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 51 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 51 | Classic parts worked great for me Jim carter has a nice catalog big selection. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 255 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 255 | Thanks guys - its a gamble but, if it were easy, I suppose everyone would be doing it.
Bruce | | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 237 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 237 | Goggle Ray Stanley in Wheelwright Mass. He has made all my panels over the past 8 years. | | | | | | OLTrucks Unregistered | | OLTrucks Unregistered | Joe is right, buy American and Ray is a great guy and makes great parts give him a call you'll find a new friend and a master metal craftsman.
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