Hi All,

Just wanted to get an idea of which replacement panels are easier to work with.

I thing I may have to replace the A panels on my 61, and maybe a few others as well.

I'm going to have a good look over the old girl at Christmas and figure out what I need.

So far it's probably A panels and maybe the door skins. Looks like the doors may have opened a bit too far at some stage.

Ian

reckon the easiest panel to replace would be:
1. Rear beaver panel
2. Battery box
3. A-panels
from here it gets harder

(apart from bolt on panels

Ive taken these pales off and they were not too difficult, so putting them on wouldnt be too hard.

I have replaced a-panels as well (outer) it wasnt too difficult, just trying to line the bolt holes up ans the curve and trying to the seams together a bbit fiddly, but worth having ago at.

Thats about af far as my replacements have gone soo far

Brenton

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just replaced a front lower guard....
pretty simple and i was a complete beginner in welding ..
Try and practice some welding on the old panel before you jump
into replacing it cause you'll blow holes everywhere if you don't....
I have a boot floor to do but thats looking to go in the two hard basket..
reckon ill just do patching jobs in the boot.......


Cheers Hoba

If you want an as straight forward job as possible it is probably worth buying genuine panels instead of cheapy's. I bought all after market panels for my rebuild and they are not perfect so a bit of extra time and stuffing around is needed when fitting them.
The other thing I noticed with the cheaper panels is the corners of the forming are not as sharp as the original car so I will need to use some filler to get the edges of some panels to a radius they should be.

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