Body panels and rails needed

23 years of ownership and finally, someone ran a red light and smoked my '71. Pretty extensive damage to the passenger rear quarter panel and related structures. Does anyone know if rear frame rails are reproduced? Who makes the best quality repro sheetmetal parts for these cars?

23 years of ownership and finally, someone ran a red light and smoked my '71. Pretty extensive damage to the passenger rear quarter panel and related structures. Does anyone know if rear frame rails are reproduced? Who makes the best quality repro sheetmetal parts for these cars?

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That Blows :-/

Call Don at Ohio Mustang

Mesozoic,

That really sucks! I looked thorough my Mustangs Unlimited catalog and found the available complete rear frame rail. The re-production rear quarters, especially for the coupes, are OK. Per Qcode351mach, take this information and call Don at Ohio Mustang to seek his advice and see if he can get these parts for you.



Source: 1965 -1973 Mustangs Unlimited pp. 215 CR: 2016

Keeps posted. Do you have pictures? :gotpics:

mustang7173

Agree with Scott - that sucks, hope no one was hurt.

Dynacorn is the only one having full fastback quarter panels made they are good - I am a dealer

Frame rails were being made in 3 sections and welded together by Mr Mustang in Dayton OH

He passed away, his Daughter kept the company going for awhile but has sold it to trim parts group. No one has been making his frame rails for over a year. I did receive a letter from a Corvette parts manufacturing co in PA. They said they bought all the frame rail tooling and were moving it to PA to start production. No ETA though

I did just pick up a 73 Mach 1 parts car with good rails and inner supports if you end up needing any of the internal parts

Thanks all. The vehicle was insured with Grundy Worldwide collector insurance, so we'll see what they want to do and go from there. The agreed value is quite high at $40K, so I suspect they will probably want to repair it, but who knows.

I noticed that NPD has frame rails listed too. I'll let my body man know about options presented in this thread, though.

Let us know how Grundy treats you on this!

Dang Man - that totally sucks! Without seeing any pics, I can honestly say that I'm sure everything is repairable.

Hopefully, you'll get it back in order sooner than later without too much hassle.

Good luck! ::thumb::

23 years of ownership and finally, someone ran a red light and smoked my '71. Pretty extensive damage to the passenger rear quarter panel and related structures. Does anyone know if rear frame rails are reproduced? Who makes the best quality repro sheetmetal parts for these cars?

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Sorry to hear that, man. That's one of my biggest fears. At least it sounds as though she can be repaired. I have always had good luck with buying parts cars. That way, you have everything you need. Just a thought. Good luck!