December 26, 2001: New Sheetmetal

  • Afraid I don't have any good new pics to show, but I ended up replacing the left side front fender. Long story short, reproduction sheet metal SUCKS! Turns out the fender that was on the car was a reproduction, and I didn't realize it. I had all kinds of problems trying to get it aligned with the door line and the header panel. I finally gave up, and bought another fender.

    Now, I looked over several and picked the best of the bunch. However, as much as I tried, it turns out that I got one that needed work in the lower panel behind the tire. Sigh... Three days worth of bondo/sand, bondo/sand, etc later, and we shot the fender red! Turned out pretty good! :)

  • Once the fender was done, I finally was able to put the entire front end together! And that means everything: bumpers, headlights, parking lights, urethane nose, grill, the whole works! It's really starting to look like a car! All that's left sheetmetal- wise is to sand and polish the hood and spoiler ends, and the body will be together and ready to roll!
  • I'll try to get some new pictures of all this work soon...