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General Category => Darrin Forum => Topic started by: joefrazer on April 10, 2019, 10:11:23 AM

Title: Darrin Body Parts
Post by: joefrazer on April 10, 2019, 10:11:23 AM

I ran across this today so I thought I'd share. It looks like someone was going to build a couple custom cars and work stopped.

https://classics.autotrader.com/classic-cars/1954/kaiser/kaiser_darrin/101095703

Title: Re: Darrin Body Parts
Post by: njpatera on April 10, 2019, 10:47:48 AM

Now that’s interesting...

Title: Re: Darrin Body Parts
Post by: pjkaiser on April 10, 2019, 12:44:59 PM

It depends on if the doors, hood, trunk and panels are separate or part of the molded parts.  This is much cheaper that fixing an old body with 65 year old fiberglass.   I know there is still lots of work cutting out the doors, fitting the other panels etc.   If I would have known then what I do now, I would have purchased this in a heartbeat (after doing my due diligence).   It would have saved 10's of thousands of dollars of scrapping the old paint, removing bondo and fillers off the old body, cleaning repairing and reinforcing the whole body etc., and in my case making molds of the front (1 1/2'), back (1 1/2') and rr quarter panel and installing them!!

Title: Re: Darrin Body Parts
Post by: rrdcorvair on April 10, 2019, 04:40:30 PM

Could these have been from the 'attempted' Shelburg that never came to pass?

Title: Re: Darrin Body Parts
Post by: pjkaiser on April 10, 2019, 09:23:26 PM

I tried to contact them but couldn't get through the "I'm not a robot" thing.   

I want to see what's under the hood and trunk!!

Title: Re: Darrin Body Parts
Post by: jake on April 10, 2019, 09:31:09 PM

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/323522-a-car-site-called-dads-cars/?tab=comments#comment-1852747