[Kevin in NJ]

Stipe makes panels.

I made my own as I found none of the repro panel at the time had the shape and details. The beads are just not close and the panels are flat. The problem is A panels are all compound curves. If you weld a flat panel into a compound curve there is no way to make it right once it is done as the flat panel is too short. (kind of a long metalworking explanation). So I found making panels from scratch to be not as hard as it seems. I was just using an arbor press and some simple tools to get decent results.