by COMPAL55 » Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:01 am
I concur, it is done all the time. I am currently building one, and almost three quarters of the way for completion. I got a little lucky on mine, a buddy of mine had about 40 truck tonneau covers he needed to get rid of, so I pieced two halves together to make the walls and same for the floor, would not reccomend for floor; it is durable but not adequate, would do wood panel floor and cover with fiberglass. So the reason the tonneau covers work is because it is a sandwich layup, consisting of one fiberglass layer on front and back of the paper honey comb (aprox. one inch thick) . 1) it cut my cost cause it was free 2) the panel is already insulated cause of the honey comb paper core 3)not sure how much weight savings vs just wood....didn't matter cause I got it all up in a few days. in the end it seems like less maintenance than just wood or alluminum, probably use some good quality car paint to finish; but yes the wood and aluminum does look alot better.......lol looks like ur on the right track there are a lot of folks here that seem to know what to do, keep digging this is a great web site with extensive ideas.......