Do you think your car really needs this extensive transplant of sheetmetal to become a car of "true" worth ? It may very well need this transplant....If so, what`s stopping you ? Can I help ?.....Do you need counciling ??? Do I need another rack of BBQ RIBBS......to wash down my brown ale ??? ....68chev talk here...Hope you are not offended....Ehh heh.....

I would love counseling....I just ripped most of the seam seal from my 69 in prep to cut the spot welds and drop the entire floor. Monday I will be buying some 1 x 1 to brace the car as the floor drops out. What scares me is where to cut the rockers. I know that I'll have a better idea once I order the new pan, but just thinking ahead scares me.

Oh, I can get more than a rack of ribs and beer if ya wanna stop down in Florida and help me out:beers:

If you have your rockers/door openings supported properly, you then have the freedom to to whatever you please. Once you stabilize this opening, do whatever you want !!! Rip everything apart, just like I did, and everything else will fall into place......That`s what happened over here.... my "corrections" helped me along the way....Details, details.......

Im going to be doing my el camino in the next few months. Not for a resto, but we're turning it into a bracket car, and the flintsone floor have to go. jim

Don't be afraid to tackle this job, it's not really that big of a deal. I assisted in the installation of one of these pieces in a 68. Suprisingly, it fit like a glove. You have to brace up the body first, then chop out the old, lift the front of the ca rup with a cherry picker, slid the new piece under the body and carefully lower the body back down. Yes you will need the longest pry bar you can get to manipulate the metal a little bit, but once again, not that big of a deal.

One thing that I don't have is the chassis available to put the floorpan on and lower the body down to it. I have the chassis in another location, all complete, but planned on doing the pan on a rotiserie......will it still work? Also, I'm going to take a stab and say that I should wait to cut until I have the new pan, right? I am going to remove all the spot welds, but.......the rockers worry me more than any other part so far.

I strongly suggest installing the new floor, especially this one with rockers and the braces with the body on the car. That way you can ensure that the pan will install as it should. On a rotisserie, there is way too much chance for error. Just imagine dropping the body back on the frame only to find out the body is rocking on corners kind of like a table with a bad leg.

Just the bearer of bad news, you are<G> Now I'm screwed. Don't have a way to couple the two together in my garage.

The next question however, is....how do you get the front edge of the new pan on top if you lower the body down on the pan attached to the frame? Or would it be better to tip the front edge into the body from below, and lever the rear edge up? Of course, then lower the entire assy down on the frame (as you suggested) and once the bolts line up, tack weld the floor to body?
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Does this make sense? Or am I way off base?