Floorpans for a '59 4 door ?

[Bel Air 348]

Does anybody know where I can find a complete floorpan for a '59 Bel Air 4 door? I know that they sell the patch pans for them, but my cars floors are so bad it would just be easier to just replace the whole floorpan.

 

[61bubble]

Sherman in Washington MI may have them. I was there a while back and saw a 61-64 floor in the showroom.
look at shermanparts.com

 

[Bel Air 348]

I checked that site out and they dont seem to have anything that I need.Thanks though!Would floors out of a '59 4 door pontiac work?

 

[SS425HP]

not an X frame

The Pontiac did not have the X frame. I'm sure the floor would be different. Not positive, but pretty sure.

 

[MK IISS]

X frame

Fred: Are you sure the '59 Pontiacs didn't have a X frame? My 1958 and '60 Pontiacs did. However the '59 Pontiac had the new "Wide Track" chassis and a wider body to go along with it. I doubt Pontiac floor pans woud fit a Chevrolet. I may be wrong but I believe the only '59 GM car that didn't have the X frame was Oldsmobile. The '59 Olds used a combination ladder/X frame with large side rails (advertised as a "Perimeter Frame"). The '59 Olds even had rear leaf springs.

 

[SS425HP]

X frame????

Richard, I didn't follow the Pontiac enough to say for sure. I was pretty sure they had the box frame. I sure wouldn't bet on it, though. I had a 57 Pontiac and it was a box frame, but so was the Chev back then. Makes sense, though, that they had an X frame. The Canadian Pontiac was on an X frame. Aubey pretty much could answer this for sure.

 

[MK IISS]

Fred: I believe Canadian Pontiacs, unlike in the U.S., used the Chevrolet frame.

http://www.welovepontiacs.com/history.html

 

[SS425HP]

frame

That's what I meant, Richard. They had to have about the same floor in order to fit the Chev frame. And, mounts. I guess I have been thinking as I was typing. Might have rambled a bit, but meant the same thing you are saying!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[real61ss]

According to my Pontiac books, 58,59 and 60 had X frames. 1961 Pontiacs had the side rails.

 

[MK IISS]

Fred: I'm totaly confused now about what frame Pontiacs used after 1958. I know for sure the '58 had a X frame. The 1959 had a new wider chassis so maybe they abandoned the X frame after only one year. Maybe my '60 just had a X brace in the center like the Olds. Remember the 1963 "Swiss Cheese" Pontiacs on the 421 drag cars? That certainly wasn't a X frame.

 

[MK IISS]

Thanks Tommy. I was typing the same time you were...only much slower.

 

[real61ss]

I don't think anyone types slower than me, I must have started before you did!!!