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140/160 Rust Repair Panels 140-160

posted by  Zee on  Wed Sep 30 00:40 CST 2009
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As you know from my posts lately and my classified ads, I am repairing/restoring 3 1969-1970 Volvo 144s/145 and lookig for sources of stampel repair sheet metal. Mostly floors and support members, in my cases.

here are some placed I have found thus far. I'll add more if I find any.

Tabco Body Parts, Ohio
http://www.tabcobodyparts.com/html/table_of_contents.htm

(rockers, lower fenders, wheel arches, spare tires wells, floors from pinchweld to about 6" in)


Mill Supply, Inc., Ohio d/b/a/ http://www.rustrepair.com/

(Volvo 65-93 Rockers, floor pans (not sure what yet),spare tire well, and dash cover)


Raybuck Autobody Parts, LLC
http://raybuck.com/c-65823-repair-panels-universal.html

Almost all domestic truck parts, but a few universal parts, like cross members, which might be useful, especially if you can bend and shrink them to contours of floors, etc.)

CVI Automotive Spare Parts for Volvo Classics, Sweden
http://www.streetrodderweb.com/tech/0811sr_rust_repair_panels/index.html

(hood, fenders, battery tray....that's about it!)

SCANDCAR.NL, Netherlands
http://www.scandcar.nl/volvo-news/volvo-140-plaatwerk-onderdelen_en.html

(good body parts illustrations, with part numbers)




Some How-To Resourses:

HOTROD.COM
http://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/body/hrdp_0805_auto_body_repair_panels/photo_08.html

(This article walks through a body skin patch, circular style)


HAYES
http://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/~hays/crx/dx/rust_repair/

(Some college guy who made a very good photo-journal of a typical rust repair we might all face -- the dogleg and wheel arch/rocker conjunction)


STREETRODDER.COM
http://www.streetrodderweb.com/tech/0811sr_rust_repair_panels/index.html

(This online article shows how to deal with pinholes and pockmarks of rust.)





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