[Tigers] Tiger Sheet metal

[robin02 at mindspring.com]

KEnt, I spoke to Bob Martel about five years ago when he was moving away from the Sunbeam fabrication efforts. HE was selling some things he still had already made but was not doing any more. It was Bob that told me that Victoria British had a good supplier for body panels from ENgland and the fit was good.   LArry Paulick later confirmed this and I bought ten body panels for my car; front and back of each wheel well and the outer rocker panels.  THe inner rocker panels were fabricated by my body, paint man.  THe fit was good and my car turned out without any evidence of patch panels.  At the time, neither Rick not Curt could fill the order. RObin Young

---Original Message-----
>From: "Baker, Kent" <kentb at qualcomm.com>
>Sent: Aug 26, 2009 1:14 PM
>To: "tigers at autox.team.net" <tigers at autox.team.net>
>Subject: [Tigers] Tiger Sheet metal
>
>I am finally getting to the complete restoration of my MK1a, and am looking
>for quality sheet metal replacement parts.  Although a Southern California
>car, it has rust on the frame exhaust pass through and a few pin holes on the
>floorboards immediately above.  The shop doing the frame welding contacted
>Martell in Ontario, but he is out of the Tiger sheet metal business. I noticed
>Classic Sunbeam Auto Parts has the exhaust frame patches listed on its parts
>sheet, but have no experience (yet) working with them.  Suggestions for
>sources?  The car is in Reno, Nevada, although I live in San Diego.
>
>Kent Baker