Loose the lips?

[B Crombie]

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<font face="Arial" size="2">Hello everyone and welcome to you John the "New Guy" !</font>
<font face="Arial" size="2"> My bodyman asked me about the availability of rear patch panels(w/lips). I know Gordon's carries them but thought I should shop around for them anyway. After contacting a couple list members, it was determined that Gordon's panels were useable but lacked upper quality. "Wavy lines" and "hard to match ends"were just a couple of terms used intodays conversation.</font>
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<font face="Arial" size="2"> One option that was discussed was to loose the lips. Go flat. Bodyman wants to know if they serve any real purpose other than looks.One pro togoing flat is a large cost savings. Of course the con is no lips.</font>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">Any thoughts?</font>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">Brian Crombie</font>
<font face="Arial" size="2">' 64 Euro-Amphi</font>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">PS: Thanks guys for the Amphi windshield leads. Now if I could get my hands on a' 67 Power Wagon windshield. </font>

 

[Moses Scott Civ 22 LG]

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<font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="630350112-25102001">Replace the bad sections with flat metal, thencut and fit90 degreeangle stock where the lip is supposed to be. Why role them in, when you canwelded them on. I know this has been done on other cars and you can't tell the difference.</span></font>
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<font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="630350112-25102001">Scott Moses</span></font>
<font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="630350112-25102001">Kansas</span></font>

 

[David Chapman]

> My bodyman asked me about the availability of rear patch panels(w/lips).
I know Gordon's carries them but thought I should shop

Brian, someone once told me that the steel on the cars with the lips is
slightly thinner and the profile at the bottom works as a reinforcement -
another explanation is they provide somewhere for the metal to absorb a dent
rather than putting extra force on the rivits, but I think most people keep
them because they look better !

Is this the "bondo body bloke" you had problems with last week ? Kick him
into touch !!

David Chapman