Not mine but this is on Portland, OR CL. They old school louvers would cost a few hundred alone. Link https://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/pts/d/beavertonford-model-louvered-deck-lid/6788332333.html
Draw a grid on the new skin. Roll it to fit the edge curves. Then 'stretch' it carefully via hammer and dolly/backer. HAMB has a thread on this method, Lots of region-based taps create the crown.
If you can’t afford a repro decklid, another way would be to use the roof skin from a large car or station wagon. Before I got my English Wheel, this was what I used. I may even end up going back to doing this for my own decklid because my efforts so far to shape one up are not yielding results.
my 31 chrysler coupe came with no deck lid. i saved a chunk of a 39 chevy sedan roof to cut and GLUE to a frame I am slowly building
When I built mine I made the frame out of sheet metal U channels and curved them with a shrinker/ stretcher, then welded a lip on the outside edge to fasten the skin on. For the skin I made a template of the crown and went to the junk yard and found a roof section with the right crown. At the shop I trimmed it to size plus 3/4" on each side. Then I folded the extra 3/4" 90*. A couple of light pops with the shrinker/stretcher on the top and bottom edges put the crown back in. After that it was a whole lot of witness marks and shrinking to get the side curves correct and even. The final step was hammering it over the lips on the frame and tacking it, just like doing a door skin. I bought my shrinker/stretcher for this project because it was the same price as a deck lid.
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