Author Topic: A Tragedy of fiberglass  (Read 845 times)

Offline asm74

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A Tragedy of fiberglass
« on: January 17, 2006 - 12:56:24 AM »
Check this out.  In another thread I mentioned my troubles with the fiberglass header panel from by 73 challenger.  The one in the car had been in an accident and the passenger side headlight moulding and surrounding area was re-scuplted out of mud, while the fender was still attached.  It crumbled up when I removed the panel.  So i bought a clean one off e-bay and it came, broken in half, right in the center, during shipping. 
Heres a picture of the "new" panels' damage, and the second one is the old panels damage.  The question is this:  Is this repairable?  Can I do it myself, or would it require a fiberglass specialist? If I can't do it, is it an expensive job?  I'd hate to have to buy yet another one of these...

Thanks!
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Offline torredcuda

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Re: A Tragedy of fiberglass
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2006 - 05:16:49 PM »
Fiberglass is fairly easy to work with and either one of those pieces are repairable but like anything it takes practice and experience to get good at it.Where are you from,I see the yarde metals package and my work buys from them?
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Re: A Tragedy of fiberglass
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2006 - 08:53:18 AM »
I took mine to a guy who does lots of vette work:

http://www.cuda-challenger.com/cc/index.php?topic=6642.0

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