I did a lousy repair job 20 years ago and I’m having to do it over again. Rather than graft in old ones, I wanted to use new ones. Everywhere I went appeared to be using panels from Sherman. The prices where all over the place: Rustrepair.com $224 Autokrafters $299 American Muscle Car $233 Restoration Performance Center $240 Rock Auto $246 Summit $340 (really?) Shipping ranged from $77 to 140 per panel. In making my rounds, one of the suppliers let it slip that Sherman does not actually make the panels. I tracked the manufacturer down: Schott Metal Products, 2225 Lee Drive, Akron, OH (330) 773-7873. A call to Schott got me in touch with a very nice lady who offered them at $125.52 each. Shipping for both panels was $145. Total $396.04. Don’t waste your time with the middlemen.
I hope you're not planning on using the entire panels, as they don't fit correctly. You can use the lower sections with no problem though. Oh, and those are just the outer skins.
I would have to agree. You will be much happier with NOS if you can find them. I think you would even be happier with USED ones.
It took me a couple years, but I managed to find 2 nice used quarters for a total of less than $200. Advantage was they included trunk drops and partial wheel housings.
I just went through this with my quarter panel repairs trying to use the new stamped quarters. There are issues with different areas of those panels so I had to use good used panels also to make it all work. The stamped panels do not have the sharp 90 degree bend needed at the tail panel where your extensions bolt - the bends are more of a gentle radius. There is no metal added to the bottoms to attach to the trunk drops so you have to figure that out on your own. There is no metal at the rear below the tail panel where youe rear valence bolts to so that has to be engineered also if needed. I didn't need any pieces to wrap around to my door frames but that part of it didn't look right either. The stampers did not purchase all of the needed dies from Ford to do this panal right. Send me a PM if you would like more details
I bought oth sides of those quarters. Looked like they were stamped with someones foot. I got so frustrated by them the only part I used was the wheel opening for patches on my outer wheel houses. Expensive way to patch an outer wheel house I can tell you that! In the end I was fortunate enough to find a pair of NOS. The only way to go if you can score any. Glenn
I asked for lower quarter panels on here and got one reply and that one was what I thought and it looks like others to was REALLY HIGH plus shipping made them out of my price range.i'd still like a pair if anyone has a set they would like to get rid of for a fair price.
ah yea! you ALWAYS here that stuff when you've already bought your stuff!could you find me a pair please?!
Used Schott panels on some rust repair on my '57 F100 a few years ago. Said I would never spend another dime with that company. Pure junk. Looked fine until you tried to fit them in place. Uneven flanges, no true 90* bends, wrong radius on curved surfaces. Pure junk. Find OEM or good take-off panels. Run from Schotts. SPark
