Quote Originally Posted by youngnstudly View Post
But why would someone ever need to make patch panel sections for 73-79 Chevy trucks in the first place? They only began to rust right out of the factory, and most look like swiss cheese by now! My dad has an all original 74 Chevy 3/4 ton that he bought 27 years ago (back when it was actually nice), and the day he was hired in the Chevy dealership body shop (back in the 90's before it closed down), he slowly began using the employee discount to purchase front fenders, the dash pad, and numerous other OEM panels on the truck....something tells me that he knew the truck would rust away sometime in the future, and he wanted to prepare for it beforehand.

It is still a great truck though!
We had several of them on the Farm and at the shop. We used all the 18-20 ga cover sheets from our steel shipments from the decoiler to make the parts. The steel was free and a lot of people we knew needed to patch up some rust. A lot better than a 2x8 piece of lumber on the floor and mud coming thru the floor and door bottom.