I spent a lot of time yesterday shimming up the drivers door, and at times I felt I was going round in circles.
I think I now have it as good as it can be given the way it came.
I also looked at a lot of the pictures I have of these cars, (concentrating on the door gaps) and while the door gapping is good on the originals and some of the more expensive re-pros, on a lot of the lower end re-pros, it wasn't perfect at all.
So I came to the conclusion that in this area, I will have to make compromises if I want to finish the car in time for Stoneleigh next year!
Already, in order to get the doors half right, I have filed out the fixing holes so much, the bloody bolts are almost pulling through, so now I have marked the best position of the bolts, and when the doors come off next, I will have to glass up the holes and re-drill the again.
The alternative is to use enormous washers, which really is not ideal.
Now to the boot lid saga.......
When the last top coat started to dry, I noticed huge scratches appear across the panel, they seemed to come from no-where, and just get bigger.
You can imagine my joy on seeing this! Talk about nightmare on Elm street!
These were really deep scratches that looked as though Freddie Krueger
had been practicing with a Stanley knife while high on cocaine.
I think at some stage, I must have picked up a bit of grit on my worn-out 400
paper, and thinking I was putting the icing on the cake with gentle rubbing
on the panel, I completely wrecked it.
Well.......... So last night, being a bit chilly, that gave me the excuse I needed to fire up my wood burner, and toast the living daylights (and solvent) out of my boot lid.
I parked it right in front of the fire and it baked for hours, so today, I was able to flat it down and re-prime it.
Looking at the picture this time, its plain to see that the bottom half had such a good shine because the surface was true, and now the top half hopefully will be the same.
After lots of flatting, the "true" bottom half was still green, but the wobbly top bit went all leopard-like.
Anyway. its back in primer, and with my newly found "oven" I can speed up the process a bit.
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