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Old Aug 21, 2020 | 11:03 PM
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Cut halfway

Cut halfway


btw this is a donor car given to me for free
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Old Aug 22, 2020 | 08:23 AM
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Anything is fixable, but that looks to be to far gone to make it worth while.

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Originally Posted by Shownomercy
Anything is fixable, but that looks to be to far gone to make it worth while.
what are you thinking cost wise?
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Who cut it, Stevie Wonder?

Pull off what is salvageable or can be used to fix other cars and send the rest to the scrap heap.
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Originally Posted by LTX
what are you thinking cost wise?
In theory, a good body shop can pull the fiberglass off the metal, weld up the roof "frame" and then bond a new fiberglass shell on. Thats gotta be a lot of hours of work, so easy few grand?

Easier way, strip the roof glass off, modify the metal and convert it to Ttops.
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Looks like someone wanted to make it a t-top car. All these cars except for the vert are potential t-top cars. The top side of the body is the same. Only thing different is either the t-tops or the shell which is glued onto the top. You should be able to peel the shell off and replace it as long as they didn’t cut through the top side/middle beam of the body. If that is cut it should go to a body shop and onto a frame straightener before it’s welded.
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The Doritos might be salvageable, but the car looks iffy.
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