I’m starting to shop around and try to find someone who doesn’t mind doing patch panels. I’ve been to two different places for estimates. I don’t have a lot of cash, so I just want to do one section at a time. Take my car home, finish up the and temporarily paint and wait till I have funds to do more. No one seems to be willing to do that. The other problem is I have 2 cougars now. One of them was meant to be a parts car for my dads cougar, but I’m thinking of looking it over one more time because the unibody may be in better shape than the one I drive around now. A guy I took it to told me it might be better to move all my parts to the other car. But the way I see it, I’m going to be the one to remove the engine, re-install in other car and so on. It seems to me so much easier to do patch panels and straighten my car out. Anyone have any ideas of someone in Central Florida who would do that for me? I’ve got at least 80% of the parts on my car replaced in the past 10 years. I don’t want to swap everything over to another car if I don’t have to. The bodywork is the last thing that needs to be done.
Maybe Florida is like Arizona: rust scares body shops because they don’t see much of it. I found a guy from Illinois that has a ton of experience and he is willing to do about anything, IF i can give him clean sheet metal to patch in. You might just need to find some one from the rust belt that isn’t intimidated by the work…
Where’s the rusted area(s)?
I know this is an older thread, but I’m dusting it off to bring up a couple points to help out.
If you own ANY older car/truck that requires rust repair, FIND A HOT RODDER! Anyone who can chop a top, french head lights or shave door handles is your man. Most times a shop that specializes in insurance repair work will NOT be very helpful.
Ask around of other car guys… they know who is building what.
a lot of body shops around here won’t even do rust repair. Takes too long not much profit.