Still At The Beauty Shop

We’re still at the shop, mak­ing progress bit by bit.  Larry asked me to drop off the chrome mould­ing  for the front edge of the hood so that as he worked out the small dent at the front he could be sure he had the right con­tour and that there would be no gaps.  Always happy to oblige I ran it over today, alas, Larry was play­ing hooky today so I left it in the car for him and he will be able to deal with it on Monday.

I’m psy­ched just see­ing progress being made.  The small bad areas on the doors have been cut out patched with metal and fin­ished off.   The pas­sen­ger side front fender has been cleaned up, aligned and the welded seam where we put on the new tab has been smoothed out and fin­ished per­fectly, even though it will be hid­den by the rocker panel when it is installed.  Found another new issue Wednes­day when we real­ized the top side of the hood had detached from the struc­tural ribs under­neath, seems like that has been taken care of and that’s a good thing.  With the way the panel was spring­ing it would have been all but impos­si­ble to block the hood with­out sta­bi­liz­ing it first.

I’m just a rookie but it looks to me that we are about 30% of the way through patch­ing and prep­ping before paint.  We are still wait­ing for the uphol­stery mate­ri­als to be deliv­ered so we can get mov­ing on get­ting the seats cov­ered and when they called today they told me they were work­ing on the head­liner and just wanted to ver­ify the num­ber of ribs.  Got that straight­ened out and asked them to please ship the fab­rics and not wait for the whole order to be com­plete.  They will get back to me with a ship date, hope­fully soon.

back next week…

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