Body Work

Body Work & Paint

The final major project
The body work has 3 major steps: 1.) Filling of the seams 2.)Initial installation and fitting 3.)Paint and reassembly.

Here is the body at Alliance when the seams are being sanded and filled. They were also working on a Cobra coupe and you can see the rear quarter panel in the first picture.

The major areas that need attention are the tops of the fenders and the mold line across the nose and rear section

Here is the body and the chassis before the body is installed.

Now the body has been fitted to the chassis, windshield and and lights have been installed as well.

I had the roll bars chrome plated after they were test fit in the body. Also in the far picture you can see the dash completed, but not covered.

Here is a look at the rear of the car. Damian's car is at the top of the picture.

The car was registered in August 2005.

Even though I have done some things to the car it still looks the same a year after registration.

Here is the car when it was dropped off for paint in November 2006

Here is the car after all the panels have been leveled and all the gaps set.

We then tore down to car and prepared it for final paint

It seems like I have done this at least once before?

Here is the body after primer and almost ready for paint

The final color will be very close to the primer color you see here

Here is the base color coat with one coat of clear prior to painting the stripes

The color is charcoal gray color found on Chevy trucks from 2006

Here is the body prior to installation with the stripes painted

This is the team at Apollo that painted the car


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