Re: [Amc-list] 58-63 American bodies (was "breaks")

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 15 May 2007, farna@xxxxxxx wrote:

> The side connectors are more or less frame rails that run bumper to bumper though! The floor holds the rails together, but there are crossmembers and reinforcements in the floor (which is one big crossmember). Then you have the side and roof structures. Doesn't look like much, but the body is built like a truss, and is one of the stiffest unit bodies ever made. It's much stiffer than the 63 Classic body. The older Classic is too, just more expensive to build than the newer ones, and it needed a styling overhaul that meant changing the unit body anyway.

Oh I was sort-of joking. When I jack it it seems quite stiff
corner to corner.

While the floor pan *is* just a big dented cookie sheet, there
is a lot of structure above that. I don't doubt you on stiffness
vs. cost. It probably is overbuilt.

I will check door fit with one corner lifted, for the hell of
it. The classic wagon is pretty good.


PS: What's that stylized slit over the hump right behind the
rear seat? Interior air exhaust? It wouldn't be visible unless
you stripped out all the floor covering. It's not in the TSM
drawings, and it's definitely stamped in, it's got stress-relief
holes at the ends and edges are paint-dipped.

63, 64 end to end build quality is spectacularly high compared
to the early 1970's! Some of the stuff is really old-fashioned
(9x2 brakes in front!) but quality isn't an issue.

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