Outer Rocker panel - recommandation of vendors?

Is this the part you are talking about?:


When I stripped the car this was underneath.


This piece was fabbed up from a flat sheet:



Used another sheet to form the front of the pillar:

No, i am talking about the outer panel of the channel that goes below the doors from the front wheelhouse to the rear wheelhouse.

This pic. is not of my Pantera , but gives you an idea of the part i must cut out of the outer rockerpanel to fix the corrosjon inside the channel.

Gotcha. You should be able to make a piece to fit from flat stock

Yep. My project went WAY beyond just the outer rocker in that area of the car, but I did fabricate a patch panel out of 18-gauge body mental like you say, comp2. I just mocked it up out of cardboard first. Here are a couple of photos of the panel and as I started tacking the patch in place.

Ron

Kirk Evans makes replacement rockers with the correct curvature. I don't know of anyone else that does.
Forest

ah, i guess this is a preview of a task for this winter. it looks like one of those things that is just going to be a bundle of fun.

nazgul

I had small rust bubbles in the driver side rocker at the A pillar. When we cut it open, we discovered that fine dust had collected at the base of the A pillar and provided a mositure trap that rusted that pillar base completely away. Luckily, the areas around it and down the rocker were very healthy. We decided to open the rockers at the other A pillar and both B pillars. While not as badly rusted, they all had collected the same dust and were all in the process of rusting like the first one. We did a little work on all of them and left a rectangular hole at the base of each to alieviate the problem in the future.
I'd suggest opening up the rocker at each pillar and checking things out. Then just weld in the panels you removed. I wouldn't mess with rocker replacement unless you find that they are badly damaged. Mine were surprising healthy once we got in there.
Mooso

This is what I found behind the outer rocker after I started investigating rust bubbles on the drivers side at the A pillar.

Ron

Ron,
This is just like mine...

I think i will replace only a 40-50 cm part of the rockerpanel. The rest of the panel is fine.
I will also fabricate a new "B" pillar base and a new senter rocker from the door and back. I have pulled the engine and the gas tank out of the car, so workspace is no problem.

FWIW, Johnny Woods, who's on this board, sells excellent repro B-post panels:
http://www.woodsautomotive.co.uk/detomaspanels.htm

Here is his restoration, which includes a number of pics of the new lower rocker panels he fabbed, although I don't think he sells these pieces:
http://www.woodsautomotive.co.uk/myrestortaion.htm

Cheers!
Garth

Tanks, Garth

I have already asked Jonny about the rocker panels. He dont sell these panels, but he gave me some good advices and ideas

I have fabricated a new "B" pillar base and a new senter rocker panel(from the door and back) is already welded in place.

I will only replace a part of the outer rockerpanel(from the door and back) This panel is not finished yet -but it will be soon.....

"B" -post base

Outer rocker panel...

This is not welded in place yet.. I used a Audi 50 78-81 panel. The panel is modified to fit a Pantera.

Under the gas tank.

A look inside the rocker panels...