So my "friend" has this 1970 Chevelle that he needs to take the rear quarters off and put on his racecar. Does anyone know how to do this? He's not sure where to cut the panels and doesn't want to make any more of a cluster in his garage than he already has.

I have found when skinning quarters, more is better. I use a air chisel. Start with the tail panel look for factory chaulk. That is a factory seam, cut upwords and along the gutter seam. Then cut the seam at the base of the window, and along the inner edge of the lip. I use the same philosophy with the door jamb, cut the factory seam at the rocker, and work up. Don't forget to seperate the floor and wheelhouse. If you can, cut the floor and wheelhouse. it's easier to clean up after the 1/4 is on a stand than to do it neat on the car.

Another way is to drill out the spot welds (all 3000 of them) and cut the sail.

Either way it's easier to trim a bigger piece, than fill gaps.

After you do one, it gets alot easier

Hope this helps

Cam...

You're car looks good this year, heck of a race for 2nd the other day. You goign to leave it all yellow, or is it not finished yet?

Thanks...............
I'm going to paint it, I have been so busy with the go fast stuff I haven't had time for the decoration yet.

Thanks for the air chisel tip, that really helped. I got the junk panels off of the replacee, now I have to get the good panels off of the donor car. We'll see how it goes.

We just pulled the body off a monte yesterday and used a saw zaw and it worked fine.Had everything stripped in about 45 min.Thats front fenders and doors and quarters all skinned and we only used about six blades which is'nt bad and it did'nt take very long.Good luck