If a show car burns is it still worth rebuilding?

[brrymnvette]

I'm looking at a 68 Camaro that burnt. It was a show car before the fire. Is the metal and stuff worther reusing?

[paul67]

Depends if the panels buckled

[TA219]

ditto, the panel warpage would probably be enough to cause several headaches, plus every car i have ever seen burn usually rusts up pretty quickly so you are fighting that too.

I guess it depeneds on how bad the fire was

[6'9"Witha69]

People have started with less.

[Restomod]

If it burned bad enough the owner did not fix it you can bet every panel is warped.

[MonzaRacer]

Bret Voekel President of Air Ride Technologies 71 Prostreet Mustang was in a fire if I remember correctly. I do know one of his old cars was in fire and rebuilt.

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Im not a body guy, Jim and Mike are... but I wouldn't think that would be a very solid foundation to start with. Why not look for a car that doesn't have baggage?

[Restomod]

:postpics:

[LateNight72]

Not only the warpage from heat, but also the warpage from the fire hose (if the Fire Dept. responded) would be excessive...

[bookends]

also the fire dept isn't exactly gentle to the body panels when it comes to opening hoods and such to access where the fire is.