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03-11-2008, 10:29 PM   #8 (permalink)
eliteman76
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Nebraska
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Re: 1972 Gran Torino Sport - 17 year barn nap find

Updated as of today:
Spent some time cleaning up the passenger door-took the fender off, drilled some 1/8" alignment holes on the hinges, and took the door off after all my finish blocking. Asside from 4 layers of paint {mental note-Jon, just who in the heck owned that puzzle car, these doors are pretty nice but 4 layers of paint and primer?!?} - anyways- asside from the paint I stripped off, and then 80g DA'ed the door, that thing is pretty nice asside from some minor rear lower tin worm cancer in the back corner. Made a patch panel, plan on welding it up in tomorrow. Need to dig out my NOS fenders and headlight buckets now.

I had to do some work on the 1/4 to door gap, but after thinking about what I watched on the Musclecar show when they were doing the crate camaro and the gaps, I did the same.
basically did a spread, hand blocked it, and used a cut off to get a nice gap.
Did some minor work to even the gap out a tick more, and I am happy right now, panel is straight finally, and after all the blocking, I am satisfied with the look.













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