Almost complete

I still have some rough spots I need to redo but overall I am very please with my lack of Bodyshop skills. I had enough time this week to temporarily fit the front bumper and that turned out great. Im hoping within a week it will be ready for paint.

So far so good.

No real problems or issues with the body work learning as I go along with what works and what doesn’t. Still on target to be ready for paint by the end of July. Next big task is properly fitting the front bumper. Here are up to date pics.

Drivers side almost complete.

Here are more pics of the drivers side as well the passenger door before I get started so you can see what I am working with.

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Starting bodywork

Time to get this bodywork done!
Here are some pics along with my helper.

Recent pics

After driving the car for the summer and working out the bugs its time to get a plan on how to finish

The bodywork as well as the interior. Looks like I will have to do most of the work myself as most shops I spoke with don’t want to finish any work that someone else has started. As I don’t have a heated shop I will be working on the interior over the winter.

Time to drive

After several months of putting the car back together, getting a coat of paint put on and trying to get rid of engine codes it is time to test drive the car for the rest of the summer.
Hopefully I won’t have too many issues and setbacks, one problem on the first test drive was that the wheel wells were made too small so almost every bump I hit the centre of the wheel rubs.
On a positive side the air conditioning works great as it has been a very hot summer here so this is a good sign. Once I got the car running it was great to hear the Shelby exhaust.
I still have not decided what to with the body work yet the more I look at it the mistakes and poor workmanship i see the more unmotivated I get to keep going on the project.
Here is a couple of pics from this week.

Moving forward

After much deliberation going over budget and missing another deadline, I have decided to remove my car from the Bodyshop. This was a very hard decision but the right one. I searched for another shop to finish the car, but I am finding out that no one wants to finish someone else’s work.
So this past week I made the decision to finish the car myself. I know I will have a challenge with a couple of things but at least I control my own destiny now!
Maybe once I have settled down I will talk about my quest to get this car where it is today.
Here are a couple of pics from when I picked up the car to where it is today.