Thread: Rod Bods Dealer along the East Coast?????

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I'm not sure what steel bodies he was looking at, but the Brookvilles I have looked at for over 5 years at Daytona are subperb. I would die to have one of the coupe bodies they make.

I kind of wonder about his last statement endorsing the one brand glass body. Almost seems like an advertisement of sorts??

Don

I dont know exactly whos bodies the man speaks of. Its just one mans opinion.

There aren't that many steel bodies out there, are there??


Don

I look forward to seeing whatever '32 bodies the vendors bring to Daytona but from what I've seen and read, I want steel. I would love to see a Rod Bods and Brookville side by side. I've seen Rod Bods for considerably less money from a couple of their dealers which makes it pretty attractive plus I don't want to pay $1500 shipping for any of them.

There's a reason the Rod Bod is less.............as often happens. Pay me now, pay me later.

If you're not a skilled body man the $1500-2000 difference will be made up and surpassed in body work you hire out to get it smooth enough to paint. And if you're not a body man there's no way you'll SEE the waves in the sheet metal. Body men see that sort of thing with their hands, not their eyes. Lay people see the shiny metal and go OOOHHHHHH! I've been around both B'Ville and RB, the B'ville was much smoother by comparison, and the lines are more accurate as well as better lined up to start with. They do require more reinforcement to make them more stable, but in my opinion they're worth it. I looked at their coupe at SEMA last year. Again, very impressive.............but, it did need some straightening to be really nice.............a TON better than the now discontinued Hot Rods & Horsepower coupes.

If you don't have a lot of experience with feeling irregularities in sheetmetal here's a tip. Take a thin cotton glove with you. Then with your hand gloved, run it over the sheetmetal with your fingers and palm flat (most novices tend to try to do this with just their fingers, it works best with the whole hand surface in contact). Concentrate on what your hand feels, don't try to carry on a discussion with your buddies, and don't let the guy selling the body chatter your ear off. If you can feel any irregularity it will show through on the paint big time......the darker the color the worse. Don't just feel across the big expanses like door and forward portion of the quarter, that's a good place to start to get the feel of it. But also feel around the cowl, top, bottom, middle. The last two RB bodies I was around were absolutely horrible in the upper cowl side area near the body line, dished and wobbly, major time consumer to fix right. Feel the curved surfaces too, especially the deck lid, but also the quarter tops, down low in particular.