difficulty?
how much should i expect to have a body shop charge to replace both rear quarters, and the rear pan?

let me rephrase after reading search topics. its a full resto. status now is needs floors, completer front end and rear quarters. frame, framerails, and trunk are solid however.

anyway, i have decided to go with the 80% quarters from ricks first gen.

what do you think a body shop would charge to install both rear quarters, and rear pan, and refinish all the surface rust inside the trunk. I want to take the entire car back to bare metal. so the underbody can be recoated and the trunk can be repainted. then have the car primered, while its missing the interior and complete front end.

then i have decided to go with a full fiberglass front end. the car is going to be a street driver. not daily, but summers only. garaged on a gm dealer's showroom when finished.

how fast and easy is it for a body shop to strip an entire car, frame and body to bare metal and primer it again, would they sand blast it, wire wheel? what, how would they do it?

any tricks to installing new full floor pans? what would they charge for that?

thanks, all help appreciated. i hope to have the car in good looking drivable shape within a year. think i could have the main shell prepped to be painted, so i could reinstall the front end panels etc.. engine and such so that it was a perfect bodied primered car? for under 6 thou $.

wish this car was in as good of shape as my 92 http://www.camaros.net/forum/smile.gif

Ive beening getting quotes to do full quarters both sides, trunk replaced and put the car in full primer for around $3000. That does not include the quarters tho. To do what you want for under $6000 might be pushing it. Make sure you call around, alot of guys that work at body shops also do side jobs. Good luck

In some areas, body shops aren't allowed to sand blast cars. Hard to believe, but true. They have to have EPA clearance, a license and an enclosed area specifically designed to do it. They would probably sub out the blasting to a shop allowed to do such work. Of course you could find a blasting shop yourself and save the middleman price.
How much it will cost is almost impossible to answer. It depends on location, how much is involved, how busy the shop is, the quality of their work and so on. You won't necessarilly get a better job if you spend more money, but you're more likely to.

for a first time body work job, do you think, i could weld them myself?
could i possible ruin the entire quarter if i screw up? how would i screw up. can i just cut the old panel off and butt up the new one? do i need to weld on some tabs to the old remaining panel or something. how bad would it look if i dont get them matched perfectly?

Check out http://www.creeksideclassics.com/body.htm
I have never done body work before this. I took my time and NEVER made one cut. I would make a cut and then test the fit. Feel free to email me and I can send you a more detailed desc. of what I did.

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