Goodmark or dynacorn??

Goodmark

Are they that much different

I don't know anything about Dynacorn, but I had relatively good luck with Goodmark quarters. I'd say they were 95% accurate.

Who sells Dynacorn? The suppliers rarely say where they get the panels.

My OER panels from Classic Industries are Dynacorn. Very nice fitment. Most of the parts I got from CI are Dynacorn. CI just put their tag over Dynacorns tag!

I have had luck with Dynacorn these guys have saved me some money compared to the big guys. http://www.restorationperformance.com/servlet/StoreFront


Derek

Thanks

So I got my Dynacorn Quarters. The driver side fits like crap. About a 1/4 bigger gap than there should be between quarter and trunk lid. If it weren't for bad luck I wouldn't have any at all. The passenger side measures a little bigger that the driver side so maybe it will fit better. Anyone else have or see this issue. Would it help to call the distributor.

That sucks. Where did you buy them? Call the people you bought them from and ask for advice but it looks like your going to have to send em back.

Full quarters or skins?

I've heard of issues on all repops, a body man advised me to save my originals if i can being that all repops are not the greatest. The lines are not as crisp, long or short fenders/quarters. One other guy that I bought some parts from was restoring a Mustang had to cut a half inch from the back end of a quarter to fit properly. While in Denver I stopped by this shop while they were restoring a 69 Firebird and guy had brought new fenders and a quarter so they can finish up his car and they told him he wasted his money because they would rather work with original sheetmetal. Good luck on your quarters.

http://www.classicrestodenver.com/galler...Firebird-01.jpg

I disagree. The Goodmark rear quarters I put on my '67 fit 95% well. The only issues we found were an inconsistient gap along the passenger door (we ground the door a little) and the vent cutout on the driver's door jamb was cut at an angle.

Other than the rounted tail corners (not as crisp as the originals) we were pleasantly surprised and happy with how they turned out. We had more body work with the NOS GM fenders I bought than the Goodmark (full) quarters. You can scroll through the picts on my photobucket of all the sheet metal work. I have picts of the alignment issues.

Some things you just need to make work. Go to Home Depot and get youself a piece of flat stock. You can heat it up and bend to the contour of the quarter. Take your time tacking it in as to not distort the panel. You may end up having to build up a little bit on the tail edge also. A little extra work, but not that big of a deal.

Body shop already cut it and put a piece in to make the gap right. I just get annoyed with the crap we buy that's supposed to be and fit right.

Yes I think people expect more than what you get.I'm just glad we can get what we can, beats working with rusty metal

I agree, up north the problem is big gaping rust holes. I dream of a car with just body damage.

Youll never find a repop that fits exactly like the original. I used goodmark and the drivers fit like a dream but the passenger side is off at the filler panel and the tail panel.

hope you don't mind me resurrecting this thread, what is better - repro panels or metal fabrication? is it harder to fix misalignment of gaps in case of repros that don't fit well as compared to just fabricating panels fully?

depends on how good your body work skill are. either way there is work just one has more bondo ie sectioning a patch. i like rust free metal with less bondo. the fit and finish is work; but if done, right the results are great. i went full panel repops. the only issue i had, was the window felt trim holes were not in place after i welded them in i had to cut them out. what a bi--ch.. and some shrinking of the gill area for the correct look. but i say doing repops was worth it.