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Old 05-04-2011, 07:32 AM
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Default Hmmmmm.... okay, let's see.

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the body in my link is a brand new f5 mk4 body, has all the latest features you stated

Mr. Bruce,

Would you mind posting 4-5 photos of the full rear and side profile?

It would be good to visualize the latest features you are referring to. I'd also like to know what has been done to not only address the issues but to give the body a little more substance and thickness than a flimsy potato chip.

Note: I recently spent several trips, night phone call conversations and emails over the past four months back and forth to the body shop with a friend who was finishing up his Mk3 body. I won't go too far into the myriad of problems but here is a small list. Once completed, I'd estimate there had to be at least five or more significant changes required to make the Mk3 version fit and look better, and even then it left more to be desired. I truly had no idea until my friend and I really started spending hours focusing and looking at each area requiring attention. Many times I think he was ready to scrap it in a dumpster and find something else better to start with - but he hung in there and saw it through to completion. And, we are talking veteran body shop too with several completed to date. I'm sure you've compared the 3 vs. 4 version and developed an eye for it; you know what I'm about to say. Hopefully with your eye and photos you can describe how and why its better and what really has been done to address all issues that truly needed attention; re-shape rear quarters, rear bottom section cut and drop or added glass, terrible door fitment, huge door gaps with dips, dips in hood, bulge above glovebox, straight line rear quarters vs. full round shape, narrow rear flares/quarters need to be extended to fit wider tires with real clearance - the list goes on... etc. Sure would save a body guy and owners a lot of work and headache if all this stuff is truly fixed now, which would be a big deal to those who actually work on this stuff. I'm sure anyone who's truly worked on a Mk2/M3 body knows first hand what it took them, which is a lot of work to make it right and truly ready for paint. At this point, I'd have to imagine an all new body with all design, all new doors/trunk/hood, and revised shape with added glass in several places would be necessary to make it noticeably better. I can't wait to see the new version properly fit to a chassis. Thanks in advance - would you mind sharing several eye level, side, rear, 3/4 angle photos of front and rear of the Mk4 body you have there for all of us to see?
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