JUNE 21, 2004 - Been awhile since I updated the page, not a whole lot going on. The work at the body shop is going well, slowly but well. Got the radiator recored and painted by my powdercoat guy. It wasnt powdercoated since the heat of the process would melt the welds so he used liquod paint. Came out well.

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Here are a few pics of the progress at the body shop. They had to cut the drivers side rear sheetmetal, where the dent was before, to bring the metal out a bit, wasnt exactly even

The bare metal spots you see are where they had to either pound it down or up to make the body perfectly even, no little dings or spots higher then the rest of the car.

They grinded down the corners of the window channel to make sure the window and molding will fit snug, no gaps

They put the light valence and lower valence on to make sure everything fits snug, did the same thing for the hood, trunk and doors.

So they are almost done with the body work, next is on to the filler guy who will make sure all the little grooves from the welding are smooth, along with the whole body....then off to paint. Here are a few more pic's of some other cars they have at the shop

JULY 4, 2004 - Got some new pic's of the progress so far. They have started the filler process and making sure there are no waves. They've done the roof and are doing the back half of the car atm.

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The guys at work

JULY 16, 2004 - Received the dash plastic bezel's back from CV Vacuum Platers. Wow, these things look brand new. If you recall on page 2 I had a local paint shop repaint the bezel's and altho they looked nice I wasnt completely happy with them so I sent them to be completely rechromed.

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JULY 29, 2004 - Visited my girl at the shop today, looking like 3 more weeks and then its time to put everything back together. So far they have put 185 hours into the car. check out the pic's below. You can see where they have painted the door jambs, the engine bay and so forth.

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