<VV> Replacing rusty floors in convertibles

[Tony Underwood]

At 05:28 PM 3/26/2007, TTuttlelandscape at aol.com wrote:
>I am getting back into corvairs,  why I don't know, but I am going to
>restore several spyders and corsa convertibles for my kids. I have 
>bought  several
>on ebay and started complete restorations.
>
>The first challenge I have run across is the floor boards. Clarks does not
>sell complete floor boards, there are missing sections between supports and
>under the rear seats. Does anyone sell the complete floorboard or do 
>you have to
>  fabricate the missing section with a metal bender? or do most people buy a
>rust  free 2 door hardtop and cannibalize it? or do you have any other ideas
>



It's always been my experience that the rust-free car is the one you 
would restore, NOT parting it to save something that's rusty.

Floors?    If you wanna get serious enough to start replacing floor 
panels, you should be serious enough to buy about 20 bucks worth of 
sheet metal hammers and dollies and shape your own floor panels for 
those places that nobody else makes parts for, and no, there's nobody 
reproducing the whole pan.   There *are* partial panels available 
though, and it's really not that hard to hammer out custom 
replacement panels to repair the areas for which nobody makes 
reproductions.


tony..