When it comes to the exterior we have you covered from emblems, exterior moldings, weather-stripping, window glass, grilles, bumpers and the finest quality body panels and sheet metal in the industry. We have a complete selection of restoration and performance parts, including original style interior seat covers, door panels, carpeting, dash pads, and all of the trim necessary for your restoration. Classic Industries offers 1959 Chevrolet El Camino Body Repair Supplies, 1959 Chevrolet El Camino Cowl 1959 Chevrolet El Camino Dash Panels, 1959 Chevrolet El Camino Doors, 1959 Chevrolet El Camino Firewall, 1959 Chevrolet El Camino Floor Pans, 1959. Thank you for visiting Eckler's, the leading site for Restoration and Restomod Parts and Accessories! You'll find our site is a one-stop shop for everything you need to restore or upgrade your El Camino. Classic Industries offers a wide selection of Body Panels for your 1959 Chevrolet El Camino. Adding a part to your list is as easy as clicking a button and you don't have to stop at just one - multiple project lists can be made so you can check off every box you need along the path to Factory Stock or Restomod. Project lists are an easy way to save, budget and plan your project. Need help planning your project? We know that your project is a huge undertaking that requires meticulous planning down to the last nut and bolt. Available at Home Depot.Thank you for visiting Eckler's, the leading site for Restoration and Restomod Parts and Accessories! You'll find our site is a one-stop shop for everything you need to restore or upgrade your Tri-Five Chevy. Note the aluminum angle shape we screwed on the back edge to clean that up. This is a tough surface but doesn't negate the need for a bed cover or weather will soon degrade it. We painted the boards with automotive catalyzed urethane clear coat and sanded and polished them as we would a body to bring out the beautiful Tigerwood grain. Bed strip bolts anchor it all together through holes drilled into the steel floor. Once all the parts were made we trial fitted it all together. We had to glue up the Tigerwood to make the side boards that step around the wheel wells Here are the dimensions that need to be cut into the edges of the boards to fit the bed strips Then we machined up the bed boards to accommodate after market supplied stainless '53 Chevy pickup bed strips. These align with the bolt holes in the bed strips so thoses bolt go through these spacers. We used urethane adhesive, available at Home Depot. In retrospect we would have welded in a flush panel.Īfter undercoating the station wagon floor (that's what it is, Elky is built on a station wagon platform!) we glued down spacers made from that 3/4" imitation wood decking made from old poly soda bottles that served two purposes leveled out the base and spaced the Tigerwood floorboards off the steel to lessen water damage to both layers. We over thought this one and made a pan to drain water from under the floorboards. It was some European brand, don't recall the name but there are several on the market. It had heavy stiff for undecoating and lighter penetrating stuff for inside places like the rocker panels. We bought one of the commercial type undercoating systems and sprayed it in every nook and cranny we could find. scrape off all lose corrosion you can and soak it in converter, then coat it with undercoating. We rebuilt the floor of the smuggler's compartment, welded in a steel roof and opened it to the interior of the cab for more storage room. We sold the beat up bed panel from our '59 on ebaY and installed a Tigerwood bed. Easily removed with drilling out the spots and/or hammer and chiseling some of them.
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