Obiwan, Sounds to me like your friend has MetalCrafters confused with someone else. MetalCrafters has not, so far, manufactured repro panels or any repro parts, for sale to the public. Rather they make one-off show cars for DaimlerChrysler and others. They only agreed to do these panels as a favor to D/C thanks to some serious prodding from D/C brass... more info about the company can be found on their web site: http://www.metalcrafters.com/ . Sure doesn't sound like flakes to me. Not that I am endorsing the quality of their product - haven't seen any yet, nor heard from anyone who has ! John ----- Original Message ----- From: "obiwan10" > I was told by a Auto Restorer(who many of you know) friend of mine, when I had mentioned to him about 30 days ago that MetalCrafters had developed a lower panel replacement for the 300 C, that these guys were flakes and that he would believe it when he saw them, and if he saw them he would he very skeptical of the quality.