Has anyone had any experience with the Dynacorn 69 Camaro body yet? I would like to know what the quality & fit is like. How about issues with getting a car titled & insured once you use the body. I just finished "Project" 69" and thinking about doing another with this body and the new aluminum front end???
Retro-Tech here in Indy purchased a coupe body last fall. Right at delivery we noticed the right tail light opening to quarter panel edge was 3/4 wider then the left side. When we mini-tubed it we found that the frame rail was 1/4 off - which pushed the trunk pan 1/4 inch - which pushed the tail panel another 1/4 inch - until the quarter was way off. We tore the tail panel out and found they had un-bent the original quarter panel flange - bent it right at the very edge so it would reach the tail light panel again and welded it up. We also found no primer in the area(s) between the tail panel and the trunk and fender extensions/closeouts/lock mount - the areas were already pretty rusted from shipping from R.O.C. That's as far as it's gotten for now - not to the point of other panel or component fit up.
I know a local shop that uses Dynacorn Camaro and Mustang bodies and they have had a lot of fitment and quality issues with the cars. Luckily, they have a good enough relationship with Dynacorn that they have addressed a lot of the assembly issues that were causing problems for the car builders. This shop spends close to 600 hours on a body so they are pretty picky. I think Dynacorn has come a long way from where they were.
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69 SS396 Camaro Coupe, 4link, 12bolt posi, Speedtech LCA and UCA's, Hotchkis 2" drop springs and sway bar, Ridetech triple remote resevoir coilovers, Bilsteins, Wilwood 6 piston front/4 piston rear, Magnaflow stainless exhaust, Lemons Headers, Comp rollers/p-rods/cam, Fikse 18x8.5 and 18x10
It will be a cold day in hell before I'm crusing around in a 69 Camaro with made in China stamped somewhere on the body! I can handle it on my T shirt, laundry basket, blender, etc Not my piece of American history. I'd really like to tell you how I really feel!!!!
Sorry, kind of off topic, but I'm replacing so much metal on my 69, it might as well be stamped ROC. I *almost* wish I considered a replacement body before starting metalwork 3 years ago... So I think there is a place for these bodies in the hobby.
Sorry, kind of off topic, but I'm replacing so much metal on my 69, it might as well be stamped ROC. I *almost* wish I considered a replacement body before starting metalwork 3 years ago... So I think there is a place for these bodies in the hobby.
Exactly what we faced. After the original body came back from stripping, it was clear the entire shell was shot from rust, cover up of previous damage and terrible partial 1/4 panel replacements. So we replaced the shell and it was much cheaper then repairing all that stuff. It certainly has a place in this hobby/industry.
It will be a cold day in hell before I'm crusing around in a 69 Camaro with made in China stamped somewhere on the body! I can handle it on my T shirt, laundry basket, blender, etc Not my piece of American history. I'd really like to tell you how I really feel!!!!
It will be a cold day in hell before I'm crusing around in a 69 Camaro with made in China stamped somewhere on the body! I can handle it on my T shirt, laundry basket, blender, etc Not my piece of American history. I'd really like to tell you how I really feel!!!!
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