Brand new bed panels and the panel behind the seat for my 72' Restoration project.

They're just laying there, still more prepping to do before I can weld them in.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v695/Gsir8/El%20Camino/bedlayedout.jpg

And behind the seat

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v695/Gsir8/El%20Camino/behindtheseatpanel.jpg

Working Now????

I tried to use Yahoo Photos and its set to public, I don't know why it didn't work. I could see them.. Oh well they should work now, they're on photobucket.

Not only is he fabricationally challenged, but he's picture postingly challenged too :-D

Dad

That white color with the white background makes it hard to see the detail. :sarcasm:

Take care.

whats wrong with the pictures father????

I can't see em.
Bowtie can't see em.

Aren't you supposed to be in school :mad:
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Post them on your photobucket site, and I'll post em for you.
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Friggen kids :?

Fixed???

Fixed. Keep us posted on your progress. It's gonna look great! :)

Take care.

I'd DEFINITELY like to know/see how your bed panels turn out...I'm planning on replacing the bed panels in my '68 (I've got some rust through on the pass. side)...it looks like with those panels that you are going to eliminate the smuggler's box cover, eh?

Oh Greg will keep you posted, that's for sure.
They better come out great, we're taking our time and trying to do it right.
Yeah, the smugglers box cover is going away. Not by plan but only because that's how these panel come and I think it will look cleaner plus I can't imagine why I'd ever need to get in there anyway.
If you look at the top and bottom edges of these panels you see that they are just sheared off. This means I will have to crimp down the raised ridges so it is flat, then I can trim and weld. This is gonna be a bit of a trick because we want them to look right.
The supports under the bed and the rear corners needed a lot of work, but their coming along.
The whole bottom of this Cruck is gonna be new and should look great, once we're done with that we can really start moving along. The problem buying panels is that the freight will kill you - it can cost as much as the parts. I lucked out because these were in Cali and I had a truckload of freight coming anyway so it was free :-D
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Remember the thread about who sent an Elky to a boneyard ? I could start one on who SHOULD have sent an Elky to a boneyard 8O

Crimping is for pimps

I'm feeling you, brother! Bed repair is not for the faint of heart. The rust in my bed over the years allowed water/snow/moisture to get to the right side bed support...rusted out about a foot of it. Every time I go to thinking about cutting out the bed and replacing the panel/support it makes me cringe! I have it "glassed" over right now...winter is coming up though and that's the "not driving the ElCamino" season...good a time as any to let the cutting wheel spin! 8)

Yeah 68, that happened to ours too. I wasn't able to find any supports so we had to fab one up out of some channel we had (unistrut actually). I wasn't too bad really.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v695/Gsir8/El%20Camino/beamfab.jpg
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v695/Gsir8/El%20Camino/newbeam.jpg
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Bill

Can you plz post your photobucket site addy again. For some reason, the one that I had saved doesn't work anymore :(

I'll try:

http://photobucket.com/albums/v695/Gsir8/El%20Camino/

Hi,
Looked at all Your pics, and WOW,You have been busy!!! 8) I see a common theme with Us Camino owners, Gluttons for Punishment!!! :lol:
Lookin Good!!!
Ron

It's funny you should say that. We were welding in those rear corners that rust out last night and I turned to Greg and said:
" You had to pick an El Camino. This has to be one of the hardest to restore, any other car this would just be the trunk and it wouldn't be all rusted out "
:-(

He just says "yeah dad" :?

Except cars with trunks aren't as cool as the El Camino