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Originally Posted by Sparky67
Well, I had 67 NOS quarters installed on my 67 Camaro and my friend's dad (Body man with 55 years experience) owns a 69 Z28 with NOS quarters the fit was perfect. Now, he has never used AMD quarter panels, but he has used aftermarket quarter panels on a 67 Chevelle. I think he told me, 20 hours + per side on the Chevelle and he will never use aftermarket panels again. GM used 18 gauge for sheetmetal. I am not sure on aftermaker, but I heard it is 24 gauge. As for cost, NOS sounds high but it does fit. I didn't pay 4k for mine, nor did my bodyman for his 69 Z28. Just looking at the cost though 20 x ($75 average shop rate) = $1500 + 400 = $1900 to fit them per side. I prefer going NOS, and the resale of the car will be much higher than AFTERMARKET from Taiwan.
Jeff
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Reproduction panels are not 24 gauge. They're much thicker then that. I'd guess 18-20 , I'm sure that information is out there.
As for resale of custom/pro-touring cars, no one cares if the panels are NOS or repo, just as long as they fit. And either way you go, they'll need work if you're building a high quality car.
Fitting a repo panel is a piece of cake if you have any metal work experience at all. Look at all these cars that have custom metal work done, that's 100x harder then fitting a repo panel.
