It has been a cold week, but we did find some time to test fit the body on the chassis. It turns out that the donor gas tank conflicts with the body more than we thought it would. We pulled the body back off about 4 times to gradually cut and grind enough of the fiberglass to fit it perfectly onto the chassis. The results look very nice (pardon the dust!).
You can just see the source of the conflict with the body in the next picture. We had to cut and grind the body on the driver's side of the gas tank so that the rear could be centered over the frame of the hatch.
The funny thing is that before we put the body on it looked like we'd added a whole bunch of parts to a bare chassis (and we did!). Now all I see are the areas under the body where we need to add a bunch more parts.
The next steps are to secure the body to the chassis by adding the taillights, drilling and bolting to various mounting points, and starting to add items like the fuel filler neck. Once the body is where it needs to be we will mount the hood.
The hood and the doors will need to be cut down to fit the openings on the body, as the manufacturer makes those parts bigger. The manufacturer believes it is easier to cut the doors and hood down to size than it is to add material to the doors and hood.
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