Two Down, Two to Go

We finished the hood and the passenger door. Both are now ready for SlickSand.

We turned out attention to the driver's door, which needed a lot of help. First, we mocked up a special jig to fabricate an extension to the top edge of the door. This is a result of removing a little too much of the top of the door in early fitting.

The brown layer is a piece of vinyl baseboard molding from a hardware store. The 2-part filler called Everglass that we used won't stick to vinyl, making it perfect to help us mold the door edge. We also used a 3/16" square dowel to give us a nice flat edge.

We clamped all of this to the door with a thin piece of plywood so that the vinyl was in contact with the whole length of the area to be filled. We then filled the area with Everglass. It worked like a charm! We had a couple of real small voids, which now have Rage Gold in them. More pics of that later.

We also went back and sanded the edges of the doors and doorframes round. Until now we've been very careful not to round anything over, so this added a nice finishing touch to the surfaces we've been working on.

We have a few mechanical items to attend to before we are ready to pull the body back off of the car. We'll also need to build a painting buck for the body. Look for that in the next couple of weeks!