Best Body panels for fitment

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Best Body panels for fitment

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Ok then I am starting to stock up on body panels for my chally. Who's panels fit the best ie sherman, goodmark, Amd and where is best to get them from. The main bits will be full quarters,trunk drop off's trunk floor and trunk weatherstrip gutters and an inner wheel well. I know that all of them will need work, I just want to try to get the best fit out of the box. :?
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Wolfman wrote:Ok then I am starting to stock up on body panels for my chally. Who's panels fit the best ie sherman, goodmark, Amd and where is best to get them from. The main bits will be full quarters,trunk drop off's trunk floor and trunk weatherstrip gutters and an inner wheel well. I know that all of them will need work, I just want to try to get the best fit out of the box. :?
I replaced a rear quarter panel using product from Sherman. Overall the fit was reasonable & what I would expect from a pattern type product. The area that needed the most persuasion was were it fixed to the rear panel.

Recently I fitted a AMD lower rear wing quarter panel after I ripped the original wheel well with to large an offset wheel. Part was well made & no major issues. Cost was reasonable & overall quality was good.

As usual it's the shipping that kills off the good deals.
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mopar_mark wrote:
Wolfman wrote:Ok then I am starting to stock up on body panels for my chally. Who's panels fit the best ie sherman, goodmark, Amd and where is best to get them from. The main bits will be full quarters,trunk drop off's trunk floor and trunk weatherstrip gutters and an inner wheel well. I know that all of them will need work, I just want to try to get the best fit out of the box. :?
I replaced a rear quarter panel using product from Sherman. Overall the fit was reasonable & what I would expect from a pattern type product. The area that needed the most persuasion was were it fixed to the rear panel.

Recently I fitted a AMD lower rear wing quarter panel after I ripped the original wheel well with to large an offset wheel. Part was well made & no major issues. Cost was reasonable & overall quality was good.

As usual it's the shipping that kills off the good deals.
Thanks for that Mark, It looks like I may go the AMD route I have jut got to find the best place to source them :thumbright:
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The panels I got for the Belve are Sherman and I'm very unhappy with the fit.
The steel is nice and thick and overall shape is fine but the profile of the wheel arch lip is completely different- instead of the crisp edges in the original, these are just completely rounded off :?
I looked at several sellers under different brand names and realised that a lot used the same photo.
This made me suspect they use the same supplier too, maybe these are as good as you can get!
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The Sherman panels are made from the old and very worn out original tooling. Which is why they are so "soft" on the body lines.

Goodmark claim to have made new tooling for a lot of their panels.
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