You can get the side skirts of another 1st gen...but you'll have to drill holes in your rockers that correspond the the clips that you have to use to secure the side skirt to your rocker pannel. BUT you really need to try to stop the rust. Here's what I did.
**NOTE** NOT THE BEST WAY
Went to auto zone and bought a can of fiberglass bondo, and regular bondo, get sand paper, and if you don't have a sanding block get one of those too, and make sure you have somehting to mix and apply the bondo with. And a can of herculiner or I used duplicolor bed liner and the brushes needed to apply it.
1) knoock out all the rust and dirt that will be in your rockers...get it all out, I used a shop vac and a screwdriver to get it. This will make the rust hole much much bigger...but you need to get the rust out.
2) start building up a good base in the clean rocker pannel using the figerglass bondo (it's stronger than regular, but a PITA to use). You dont' have to worry too much about making it pretty right now, we're just getting a base built up.
3)Once your base is built up so that the hole is mostly full, get the regular bondo and start to fill in....while you do this TRY to make it sort of conform to the contour of the rockers.
4) As you get close to filling it all in it's time to sand...and sand...and sand...and sand...do it until the new patch matches the contour of the rocker. There will be little low spots though, just fill in and sand more...try to get it as close as possible so the side skirts will fit snugly against the pacth, but not so snugly that the patch deforms the side skirt.
5) Since your putting side skirts on you'll have to figure out a way to transfer the points where the clips that attach the tupperware are supposed to go.
6) drill out those point, you won't need a big whole here, just make sure that the hole is not as wide as the clips, or else they won't have anything to hold on to.
7) Use rubberized undercoating and spray it in the newly drilled holes in your rocker pannels....hopefully this will help seal the rust out and repel/minimizes the damage that water will cause.
8) Nows the time to use the bed liner. Mask off the rocker pannels so you can make it fairly straight and paint the rockers with the bed liner paint. Don't worry...when you put the side skirts on it will cover 95% of the black bed liner.
9) When finishied with all of this put the rockers on. You should see about a 1/2 inch bead of bed liner, but it's a hell of a lot better than rust holes.
I did this nearly a year ago and it still looks great. It was one of the best things I could have done. Now eventually I will simply replace the rockers, and dog legs (which is the best way)...but for now it works and looks really good.
Hope that helps!!!
CP
