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Even using this panel as a template for any future body shell requirements.
Never say never but I'm not sure this is a part we could easily reproduce Andrew. I expect that the tooling would be eye wateringly expensive as we would have to use steel draw tooling (and probably more than one tool) as there is no longer a rubber press that could produce a panel of this size. Rubber press panels are usually a lot cheaper to produce, for example the steel draw tooling for a panel we were investigating (until we found that rubber presses were not viable) was 2-3 times more expensive than the rubber press equivalent.
The other issue is the unknown provenance of the panel, I don't know if SOC spares was the only producer of this panel in years gone by but an original seat pan from a car would be a better template for a new panel. As it happens, I have one in my garage taken from a good shell.
Thanks for bringing it up though and I hope my post helps?
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