anyone know anyone who has had a shot at making some floor pans for a 1200 ute? i am keen on keeping the factory strength lines etc..

surely someone has the press for these things laying in there warehouse!

yeah im sure they do have the 30 year old presses lying about...

If you want it on one sheet, thats a big ask.
If you are happy with it sections that you weld in then thats a bit more achieveable. These days you dont even have to weld. Panel beaters use a glue now to do panel work. They literly just glue the new section in, bog over, paint, done.

The 1k floor pans are pressed from one sheet of steel i think,(you can see the creases in the pan everywhere) and I imagine the the 1200 is the same.
Crack out the hammers, an english wheel and pressbrake and whip em up your self. Should only take you an hour or two....

yeh thats what i am thinking, possibly get the sheet metal guys to get em roughly to shape then i can weld em in..

It also depends on how much you want to replace.

The section behind the rail where the seats bolt down is nearly flat. so thats easyish.

The tunnel is the harder part to get the same as factory as it curves in two directions.

I think that most guys when they make a new tunnel to fit different boxes, they make them with square edges as its just too hard to get them round.

If you can supply a sheet metal work with your old floor, then they shoudl be able to do something, it will just cost some reasonable dollars i would expect.

bailz have you thought about finding another 1200 ute and cutting the floor out of it ,that way you know it will fit and will probably be cheaper in the long run , you could try grand auto wreckers ,they might have a shell there with a good floor

Pfft, a 1200 with no rust, like to see that. I am not interested in unpicking a 30yr old floor pan and welding it into my ute.

haha the floor in my coupe is mint and it has an auto tunnel ,heeaappss of room

Yeh, all well and good having what appears to be a good nic floor. I am not doing a half Assed job with the ute

you got it goin in like under a month ,i reckon thats a pretty good effort

are you just doin all the panel work

is it on a rottissorie or just rolling

Rotisserie job, pretty full on, like I said it's not gunna be half baked ;)