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1976Midget

1976Midget

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Does anyone know where to pick up some cheap Body panels. I'm looking for something good but Cheap. I know that hard to find but i'm currently on a budget and my MG is eatting away with cancer. so i need to get some metal in it Before i fall through the floor
 
Cheapest bet is to keep watching eBay for parts that others bought but then gave up on. Also, if you can find a solid shell for a parts car you can harvest donor panels, although it can be a lot of extra work. Bolt-on pieces are easy.

Floors can often be patched with flat sheet steel from a hardware store if you are not a bug about authenticity.

The drivers side floor pan of the MGB I drove in college was the door skin of a Buck Electra that I harvested from the junk pile behind a body shop. It was crinkled but not torn, and we stomped it flat before cutting out what we needed. The passenger side floor pan was the cover from an old oil furnace I found at the junkyard.

It wasn't elegant but it kept it on the road!
 
A good set of hammers a right angle grinder and a pickup truck hood had all the panels I needed. Really consider the internal damage that the outer removal will reveal. By the way that was an 85 F250 hood that I cut up. It was the same gauge as the original steel.

Anthony
 
best use for a Ford i can think of..........



mark
 
SilentUnicorn said:
best use for a Ford i can think of..........



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Fully Agreed. Yeah i consider useing some old gas tanks. as there always Available at the Junkyards cheap since the crusher wont take them. the floors are okay it everything else that sucks. I'm kicking my self because i need rockers and i had a brand new set of rocker i threw out to the trash about 6 years ago because no one wanted them. Who ever owned this car before me was Bondo Happy.
 
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