Today I focused on the rockers, mainly. Because of all the "massaging" I had to do to get the door gaps right ( repro parts - gotta love em) there were quite a few little dimples in the rockers. I gave both a coat of bondo top and bottom, as I have my doubts about how well the sill plates will fit. If worse comes to worse, at least the upper part that shows will look good, and I can run without them. Not what I would choose, but I'm preparing for the worst case scenario. I also spent time with a file smoothing out the inside radius of the left rear wheel opening. I initially used a grinder to get the lip close to being an equal measurement all the way round, but until the bodywork was complete, there was no way to get it totally accurate. It's not perfect (again, due to using repro parts), but I'm fairly happy with how it looks. Fabricating the inner wheelhouse pieces and mating them to the patch panels so that the curvature and radius of the wheel opening are correct has been one of the most challenging parts of the metalwork on this project. A true ghia afficionado ( sp?) would quickly note that there are no spotweld dimples where the outer and inner quarters mate, but what the hey, it's going to be a driver, not a tralier queen.
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