Rant - AMD

[dadsbee]

Odd.. my upper cowl fit perfectly !

 

[torredcuda]

I`ll take that panel alignment/ easy fix over a lot of the China made junk I used to deal with in body shops and a lot better than having to fabricate from scratch or trying to find high priced used panels and have them shipped across country. Also remember these cars had tolerances of +/- 1/8 to 1/4" from the factory, I bet even line workers used hammers a lot.

 

[threewood]

I`ll take that panel alignment/ easy fix over a lot of the China made junk I used to deal with in body shops and a lot better than having to fabricate from scratch or trying to find high priced used panels and have them shipped across country. Also remember these cars had tolerances of +/- 1/8 to 1/4" from the factory, I bet even line workers used hammers a lot.

When I removed the lead in the c pillar on my 69, there were hammer marks on both sides, roof and quarter wing, from the factory....so yes, they used hammers.

 

[torredcuda]

Also door and fender are adjustable, is cowl taller on drivers side than passenger how about the door to rocker and quarter gaps, make sure they are good first. Did you take any measurements of the area before cutting the old cowl off?

 

[whayden2003]

AMD has a new supplier and their fitment is crap, tried to install wheel houses from the new supplier and not even fuckin close!!! I had one of their old wheel houses still and it fit great. Had to slice and dice the outer wheel house and then had to extend the trunk extensions. Plus none of it has the sharp edges the factory metal has. Prices go up and quality went down

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It's this "Junkerup" from YouTube??

 

[gtxno1]

I used some small patch panels from them and they were good but these cars were far from perfect from the factory check on some survivors your head would spin with some of the fitment