4,000 euros for a ss tub isn't far out of line , especially since it will outlive 3 frames....
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la production de caisse a été jusqu'à présent uniquement réservé au pays francophones. en chiffre ça représente 132 caisses (body) construites depuis la création de l'entreprise.
je travaille pour pouvoir réaliser l'exportation dans le monde de mes futurs produits. encore un peu de patience , ça arrive.
So maybe you start with all other work on the rig and send him emails, call him until he will obey.
Not that he did not like to sell to germany, he just could not make it being to busy.
From his facebook page
He is asking for patience and promises that exporting them will be happen...
So maybe you start with all other work on the rig and send him emails, call him until he will obey.
I chose to Linex the underneath of my new tub for protection....its good insurance.
As far as repairing the body or obtaining one from a different country....rust will always be an issue. The metal that these vehicles were made with was never properly processed. The steel has bits of rust already in it from a faulty manufacturing process....you will always be chasing your tail on 'rust patrol" unless you use modern steel.
Thanks for sharing - Pacol tub doesn't look too bad at all.
The un-returned phone calls and messages: I could care less if they're on South American time. If they're slow, then they're slow- so long as they are clear about that from the outset. They clearly mislead you, and I imagine you felt very relieved to finally receive the tub after 7 months.
Here's the thing: if a company can't return a phone call in some reasonable sort of time frame, then the impression I take away from that is that they are, at a minimum, disorganized. Why should I entrust them with my $5000 or thereabouts? If they can't manage the basics of communication, I tend to think they might not be able to manage with the basics of fabrication. The communication is the easy part. It's not as if they have exerted effort selling to me previous - I found them.
I'm also a bit leery of the South and Central American aftermarket tub scene after the debacle with Paul Pilgrim running off with customer money. It seems like one has to be willing to lose all the money in these sorts of exchanges. If the company goes broke or runs off with your money, what recourse is there?
You look at a lot of other classic cars and there is a solid aftermarket scene making repro panels. If you want to restore your MGB, you can buy an entire repro unibody tub. If you want new fenders for your '67 Mustang, there are several companies making repros I'm sure. There's a guy I know with a 1959 Chevy pickup and he can get every panel for that truck.
I don't get why an American (or based in a country from which they are willing to export) company hasn't stepped in and started marking a FJ40 tub of quality similar to OEM, using, as you suggested, modern steels. The FJ40 tub is one of the simpler shapes to fabricate, surely? Straight-sides, simple curves, flat dash, simple pressed floor corrugations.
There are lots of people passionate about these vehicles, willing to invest in them, and there are lots of these vehicles rusting away at the same time and next to no OEM panels left.
Nice examples are fetching north of $50,000 at auction. I don't get why this market is under served.
I did this as well, under the floor pan and on top. The rust came back from the seams, and now spreads under the line-x.
I think you're right about this. The steel, especially in those '79 and later rigs, was thin and I'm sure some of them were rusting on the showroom floor, like a lot of other vehicles from the same time period.