The Ford Barn

bdave_mcc · 11-20-2015, 03:02 PM

Im back again, been going over the quarter panels on my roadster. Trying to get the body profile correct. Both sides of the roadster had significant damage at some point in life. So I don't have a really good side to get a template from. The quarters were beat up then beat up again when someone "worked" the dents out. There is a noticeable outward bulge in the quarter panels, one side the entire front portion has been worked over the other side starts about half way between the door and rear fender. All the model A's ive seen the quarter panels are fairly flat with not too much curve to them. Does anyone have any measurements or some sort of guidelines to go by as far as getting deformed panels back to factory shape? or something acceptable? If any of you guys know someone in the central Alabama area that wouldn't mind me making a couple templates off of their car, please let me know.

So far it looks as though this car was in a rear end collision, used as target practice at some point, flipped upside down, who knows, its pretty much free of rust and rot, but man this things warped up. There was pretty much at least a quarter inch of bondo ALL over this car...

ericr · 11-20-2015, 04:02 PM

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would there be any local Model A clubs in your vicinity?

11-20-2015, 03:02 PM	#1
bdave_mcc Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: McCalla, AL Posts: 181	28 Roadster Quarter Panel Profile massaging Im back again, been going over the quarter panels on my roadster. Trying to get the body profile correct. Both sides of the roadster had significant damage at some point in life. So I don't have a really good side to get a template from. The quarters were beat up then beat up again when someone "worked" the dents out. There is a noticeable outward bulge in the quarter panels, one side the entire front portion has been worked over the other side starts about half way between the door and rear fender. All the model A's ive seen the quarter panels are fairly flat with not too much curve to them. Does anyone have any measurements or some sort of guidelines to go by as far as getting deformed panels back to factory shape? or something acceptable? If any of you guys know someone in the central Alabama area that wouldn't mind me making a couple templates off of their car, please let me know. So far it looks as though this car was in a rear end collision, used as target practice at some point, flipped upside down, who knows, its pretty much free of rust and rot, but man this things warped up. There was pretty much at least a quarter inch of bondo ALL over this car...

11-20-2015, 04:02 PM	#2
ericr Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 1,542	Re: 28 Roadster Quarter Panel Profile massaging Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) would there be any local Model A clubs in your vicinity?