I got the trunk lid on again. Used cardboard spacers between the hinges and trunk to avoid scratching. Then once I had it bolted down slid one out and adjusted lightly tightening. Then went on to the other side. Then mr Murphy came by and helped me some. I had the ratchet under my arm and dropped it and chipped the new paint. Oh O was so pleased with myself.
I got out a cotton swab and dabbed color then literally mixed a drop of clear and put it on the affected area. I will sand and buff it out much later if i even ever do. It is covered by the tail chrome so I got lucky there. That was yesterday before I went to the 4rth party held on the 5th at my sisters.
I was doing test sands on panel fitments. Door to fender, hood to nosepiece etc etc see what changed in all this taking things off. Most of it wont take long to block back out. Nosepiece did change some when the brace was torqued down. It looked good wet sanded and wet in the reflection. So I be messing with that a little straightening it out. I will loosen the brace to core support and see if it will lower any. 64th of a inch would do it.
It is just enough to feel running your hand from hood to nose. But because of the rounded area there looks fine in the shine.
I plan to paint the rear black stripe next and the outside of the glove box door I never got around to doing.
I need to order the til piece and some dash gaskets for the tailights and air handler box. Just so i got a flow of work to do once it is painted and I am not waiting on stuff.
I do figure i will be prepping the body and garage for months tho. Since mom helped me miss this window of opportunity weather wise. It to hot and humid to do big stuff now. Jambs I good with. I will prep it then just have to wait till the weather cools some. I got to scrub the garage of body dust and make whatever I using for a paint booth.
I been putting my pictures in the album and then using them to post in this thread. Since originally I was posting straight to the thread and nobody could see them they were tiny. Well I open to suggestions. I got to start deleting stuff to continue soon and that will leave holes in the thread pics unless I use photobucket. But then I foget and clean out the bucket and same issue arises.
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