My brother has a 70 convertible that he is doing a frame off resto on. The frame is done, now he is onto the body. He built a rotisserie that he got the plans from on here, it came out great!! Anyways, now that the body is on the rotisserie, we spun it on it's side and took a good look. It's not pretty. He needs all new floors, trunk floors, floor and trunk braces. Now to some of the questions we have. On the inside of the rocker panel, is a plate of sheetmetal welded the entire lenght of the rocker. Is this a factory inner rocker panel?? If so, does anyone make replacements? We checked goodmark, year one, ground up, and OPGI, and did not see any inner rocker panels. Secondly, he also needs the braces that come after the 2 main floor braces. One is the brace that the rear seat panels and rest on. Is this available anywhere? I see the one for the floors is now available through goodmark, does anyone know of anywhere else? This is a major undertaking, and we are both really novices at this. After taking all measurements, what would be the first point of attack?? cutting out the inner rockers? then the floor braces, then the floor? I know alot of you guys are excellent body men, and look forward to your advice

i hope i am wrong but here goes. your ragtop is in danger of warping or worse cradle in your jig. you should have braced the body before removing it from frame . are your doors still on and closed? hope so someone with more experence with topless babes please step forward

yes, all door opening are braced, with an "x" pattern and also braces going across the rear seat atea. Before any cutting of floors will be done, additional braces will be added going from drivers door to passengers door to make sure there is no warpage there. Thanks for the insight though

The piece of metal you are talking about "inner rocker" is not reproduced. It shouldn't be hard to bend yourself though, as most of it I think are right-angle bends.

I don't know if you are actually replacing your rockers though, cause I'm not for sure that whole piece can be done without removing the outside rocker?

The under rear seat brace is not reproduced. You'll have to see if you can repair your's, or find a junk-yard one.

thanks for the info Neal, I figured the inner rocker would be easy to fabricate, the repair on the rear seat brace looks to be a little tougher. The body on the car is not bad, it's had quarters put on it at some time. The underneath is real bad. Still looking for any advice on how the best wayo tackle this project would be. Please give some advice guys :confused:

anyone? I'll like to know also since I also plan on doing the floor and rockers.

I am helping a club member replace the floor, braces and inner rocker panels (partially) on a 65 hardtop. We only needed about 3/4rs of the inner rocker. He had a metal shop bend them. I think he paid $40 each. You can pop it apart on the bottom of the rocker easily, it was rusted gon in the fron and behind each floor brace, then slit the rocker behind the rear floor brace and weld it in.

Here's his pics.
http://www.chevelles.net/tristate/members/paul.htm

You can scroll down to the bottom to see where we pieced the rocker in.