ClassicCar

Rod,
I am also looking for some parts for my 54. If you do decide to part your car out I would like to buy some parts.... Most of what I need are trim parts i.e. Fender skirts, air filter, center grill stainless, horn ring and cap, passenger side trim below the tail light (back up light) and perhaps some interior trim.

For that price, they ain't gunna' fit. The metal alone, if it's the right thickness, is going to cost $10. or so per side.

Although the word "fit" might be a matter of opinion. :)

I have seen the stuff from "Classic 2 Current", it is very poorly made and doesn't fit right. My Swiss buddy got one of their floorpans with the Hornet Cpe he bought, and he didn't like it, so had Perry spring make him a set of front floorpans. Perry's fit like a glove and have the correct clips for the Tranny cover bolts to thread into. And yes, sheet steel is expensive today. I paid something like $50 for a 4ft X 10 ft sheet of 18guage back in 2005. Nowadays they are like $70-75. That $50 included the shop cutting it into eight 24" X 30" sections for me, which I used to made floors for the '37-47 Hudsons and Terraplanes. I think the 48-53 rockers could be Hydroformed, and the excess metal trimmed by hand, to keep costs low. Same could be done with the '54. Hydroforming doesn't require two dies, just a female die in the case of the Hudson rockers, and then the hydraulic pressure pushes on a bladder that then forces the sheet steel (which is clamped around the perimeter of the die) into the die cavity, stretching it uniformly.

FYI
Thank you for the Leads for Rocker Panels. I gave the Info to the Interested Person.
Thanks