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Old Apr 21, 2012 | 08:15 AM
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Yeah those handles were left on as was all the inner parts of the door. I will be stripping the edge and sides of the door, next. I just really had no room to do those up to now, and i knew I wanted to leave the locks in place to get the door hung b4 body work really got going.

It has been tough at times not to get over whelmed. but now that the body is back together I feel soo much better. was worried about the fit but it came out fine, i knew there would be some fine tuning of the panels when the doors were put back etc.

I will look at that product. I am using 3M 5885 to do some of the repairs still needed and for the seem.
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Old Apr 21, 2012 | 12:42 PM
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Wow, you have jumped in with both feet and just started swimming through this reto. You seem to be making some serious progress on the whole car, It's all down hill from here, you have done the nasty hard work and now you are starting to see the car come back together, it's looking great.

Is that second project car I seen in the photo when you had the Vette body outside, maybe a Camaro?

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Old Apr 21, 2012 | 02:58 PM
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So you saw that one in the background huh. No it is a 68' Firebird. actually that was what I was looking for when I got the vette. My wife is the vette person, I just love having a project
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