Replacing a front end

[Feral]

I'm looking into a '71 Super Bee that has seen some front end damage that's effected the front portion of the driver's side frame rail, core support and inner fenders. It looks like swapping out the subframe and inner fenders could put the car on it's way.

What kind of task would I be looking at?

 

[sleepar]

First get it set up on a Hunter frame jig so you know where everything is and where it is supposed to go then a donor car that's straight... it's a lot of work taking all the creases out of a tin foil ball and geting it flat as a mirror. Often times you end up transferring parts over to the straight donor car due to the labor...but if you have time and metal fab skills it's a huge grey area... I bought a 69 Buick gs for $2500... knew a guy who spent 10 years straighten one out from a junk yard that hit a pole.... more or less the same car

 

[Feral]

The car will come with a spare front end, and I have two cars I could steal the subframe from.

If purchased my intention would be to replace the front end, the rest of the car requires minimal body work.

I do currently have a super bee, but it needs alot of sheet metal work. It needs a full trunk pan, wheel houses, quarters, driver's floor pan, torsion bar crossmember, hinge pillars, possible rocker panel replacement, partial firewall.

If you had the option to replace the front subframe and inner fenders, or do all that metal work; which would you prefer to tackle?

 

[WP29440SE]

I would BY FAR fix the frame rail and inner fender LONG before I would replace all that rusted out metal, BUT we have absolutely not one picture to know exactly what is going on

 

[ma mopar nutz]

I would keep looking if it was me not like Its the last 71' bee out their but if I had a choice I would tackle the front end damaged one the X I'm working on now needs both quarters inner wheel wells and a drivers side door post as it was also wrecked when I picked up the car I bought it because the floors and trunk required no work but as I dig in on this restoration the work it is needing is more work then I thought it would be but I'm OK with that with that said I just might have held off and kept searching !

 

[Feral]

Super Bee's are hard to find, and I would love just to find a bare shell in good shape.

 

[Feral]

But I do believe that replacing the front end and rails is a task that I can get accomplished quicker and easier than replacing a bunch of sheet metal. My father is a good welder and fabricator, he has recently converted an 80's model Chevy 4-door pick-up into a two-door flatbed. Even moved the rear end and brackets to extend the wheelbase...

If he can do that, I'm sure we both could handle replacing the front end lol.