Owner built on a budget;

[Hray]

Hey Guys; Thanks for all the positive comments,

511 hours, 55 days down, 35 to

But after dinner I will go back and get some more done, so today ain't over yet.

The body is almost entirely secured to the frame, tonite I will cut out the cowl plates for the doors. I am pretty much following the manual on securing the body to frame but I have changed things just a little.

The doors fit the body perfect as the car sits now, but I have not cut out the door inserts from the body yet. I am thinking that if the body is 100 percent secured to frame that it will not move any when we cut out the door opening. then with DV's method of placing the door on the car, getting the proper spacing, then welding in the plate to cowl bar that it should be nearly perfect and done. if things are off just a little we will modify the door to fit the set body. We will know by noon tomorrow if it is just that simple.

Rear bumper spacers will be fine with just a little enlarging of the holes, previous owner cut out the front holes for bumper spacers and looks like we are going to have to use some fiberglass a little on one to them, he cut it too high. That will not be major.

So as long as the little sweetheart does not decide to do the two step on me again we should be ok with all the final stuff.

One of our car buddies came by to check it out, he was not sure about the silver frame, until he saw it and then he seemed to think it worked just fine and looked real good.