69 Camaro Body in the Crate

[68l30]

I'll take my hat off to anyone putting one of these puzzels together...Your gonna need a straight jacket or the patience of a saint to see a repop Camaro to completion.

I shoot fire from my eye's after 5 min with a set of interior piller posts or whatever POS repop part....Not for me....Never

The market is out there. They will sell as many as they make,just not to a group of purists.......

Could make a nice winter beater though......



Steve

[Late BrakeU2]

The first one hits ebay!
http://cgi.ebay.com/CREATIVE-MASTERS-196...1QQcmdZViewItem
Those Taiwan gaps are nasty !

[farone]

Steve, The salt and snow will probably rot them into the ground, like most of the offshore repops that we deal with here at the shop.

[68l30]

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Steve, The salt and snow will probably rot them into the ground, like most of the offshore repops that we deal with here at the shop.

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Ok,Ok ....no winter beater for me then.........LOL


Steve

[americanmusclecars]

Most of the steel bought for these body panels are purchased from Japan. Guess what...the same place most US companies purchase their steel. So I am curious, how is it that the reproduction parts made in Taiwan are going to rot faster than than the US parts?

[Belair62]

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Like in any business there are certain companies that are trying to capitalize on the Muscle Car craze and build body parts and throw them in the market at a fast pace without doing much research or with little or no QC. There only goal is financial gain

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So what's the next project on the drawing board for this company ? ?

[68l30]

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Most of the steel bought for these body panels are purchased from Japan. Guess what...the same place most US companies purchase their steel.

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Most of our structural steel is bought from Canada (sad[no offense intended ],but it's not Japan)......sheet metal and alloys are always local.....

Steve

[americanmusclecars]

No offense taken. Its obvious I misread my research and appreciate the correction. I certainly don't want to mis-lead anybody with faulty data. Whether imported from Canada, Mexico, or Japan I simply was trying say that I don't believe that imported metal rots faster than domestic metal....however it is apparent that you may have better knowledge about that also.

[68l30]

I can only speak for companies in my area.....Cleveland.What is supplied to these stampers(repro body panels) may indeed come from Japan.I don't want to speak for everyone....There are severel different qualities of steel.It stands to reason in todays MFG most would want to stay cost efficiant.Remember, you get what you pay for.


Steve

[Dynacorn]

Why don't all of you take a few minutes out of your busy days to do some investigating. The steel used in the replacement body shell is 1006 automotive grade steel. Different from the original yes. But, different bad? No. There are few additives and no sulpher infused into the steel. There is a boon to start with. No excessive sparking and showering when welded. Also tends to make the steel a little more resistant to dents,creases and becoming brittle with age. In addidtion, the thickness of the steel used is now all thicker than the original, so leaning on one or opening a door is not going to pull your door handles out or leave a dent. The bottom line here is that all the purists that want their cars to be left original have that inherant right for sure. Don't buy any reproduction parts for your cars from us or anyone else. But, there are scores of people that can't afford that luxery. They have options as to how much they can spend on their projects. We, at Dynacorn International and Dynacorn Classic Bodies, help them with those options by giving them the very best part available on the market for their cars. If it is a body shell, so be it. There are areas that need to be worked; yes. There are rough spots yes. No one ever said there weren't. Just as the parts that didn't fit on the original assembly lines got boxed up and sold as service parts. NOS is just that. The general market for these cars and our parts is not focused at the Yenko and Supercar snobs at all but to the regular folks that just want a nice car they can drive around. We give them that option. Now, take that for what you all will. I have not tried to upset anyone by this missive but bring a reality here that seems to be missing.

There seems to have been a lot of comments about the quality of our parts compared to an original. Well folks let me say, that we do not ever engineer a part off of an NOS parts because they didn't fit to start with. We use all original parts off of original cars so that they do fit. We find that most of the fitting problems associated with parts sold by us and others is not the part but the person trying to put it on. And remember, these are 30+ year old assembly line cars and nothing fit perfect to start with.