[rotorwrench]

I'd heard that he had stuff made but have never seen it. The difficult part is securing or clamping the sheet metal well enough to minimize stretch marks. I used bolts to secure the metal and then welded the holes up after. The Mercury cars of 49 thru 51 had V shaped beads. I made a swage and used angle iron to keep them straight. The thickness of the plywood controlled the bead depth. It worked well enough that I couldn't tell the difference from original and that was good enough for me. The hard part was making the patterns.

Only one guy made parts for these Mercs but I don't hear much from him anymore. He started after I had already made mine. I did purchase his inner and outer rockers though. They needed very little work to get them right.