Progress on Many Fronts

There have been many activities going on with the car that are not particularly photo-worthy, but represent progress nonetheless.  

• The rumble seat lid had a slight warpage so that when it was in its closed position, one corner stood high by about 1/2 inch.  Dan re-glued the corners (Remember, there's a wooden frame supporting the steel skin.) using corner reinforcement blocks and braced the lid in a compensating warp in the opposite direction.  When the clamps were removed, the lid assumed its correct shape.  It now fits perfectly.
• The spacing around the doors was imperfect.  Dan welded to build up certain areas of the door edge and filed other areas down so that we now have perfect gaps around each door perimeter.
• The doors were imperfectly formed so that they bulged out in the center of their curvature beyond the overall contour of the side of the body.  Dan heat shrunk both door skins so they are now fair to the curve of the body.

These are items that had to be done but don't exactly jump out at you when you look at the finished product.  Here are a few detailed shots taken on 5-10-2013 of the kinds of body "tweaking" that take so long and are invisible in the finished product:

 

 

 

 

You can click on any of these images to see them in more detail.