Heres a direct qoute by Brian Martin over at the Hotrodders bulletin board. He speaks of some freinds of mine on a similar topic.

"I have to tell you, after reading this thread this morning I went the Goodguys show and specifically hunted out steel bodies and gave them a "feel". I felt every one there and I have to say, they are REALLY rough. I had the impression that these bodies were like the new parts I deal with everyday at work on late model cars, they are NOT. As Mikey pointed out, VERY poor body lines, door fit, general "waves" and much worse than that most had severe low spots sunken in.

I have only tried to use one of these metal repro early ford parts (other than a few lower body panels on Model A coupes) and that was a Model A front fender. It was so rough, I sent it back and repaired an original bought at a swap meet.

I thought that this was the "old days" as this was 10 years or so ago. But after copping a feel on these bodies, they have not improved one single bit, they are VERY, VERY rough. They would take MANY hours, into a hundred or more I would assume to get them nice enough for my taste.

On the same subject, I checked out one glass body that just knocked me out. It was made by "New Age Motorsports" and was absolutely beautiful! Now, I can not stress enough, I know next to nothing about the fiberglass industry. One 30 minute chat with Mikey (Powerrodsmike) at the show today tells me I know even less than I thought I knew. But this New Age body is absolutely fabulas. It had a very shiney black gel coat and you could see it was VERY straight.

I would look into one of them before the repro steel bodies.

Brian"