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In this shot, you can see that the paint isn't as shiny as before. The reason is because Bart sanded it with 1200 grit sandpaper and it's almost ready to be buffed out but I told him not to worry about that because the graphics will be going on soon and this is how it has to look when they get painted on. I didn't want him to buff it twice so this is how it will look for awhile.

Under the car has been undercoated black for two reasons; first is because I want the car to be a driver, not a trailer queen. When the tires kick-up up rocks, this stuff has a give to it, unlike the paint on the outside has plus it will make it much easier to touch-up if need be. Second, it contrasts with the other colors better than if it were painted orange like the rest of the car. Like I've said before, color-on-color doesn't look that good to me so this is why I chose this color.

I also had Bart do the underside of the fenders but not the back of the wheel wells with undercoating. The rear fenders will end up like this as well. The reason for having those ugly small wheels and tires on there is so we could walk around the chassis easier when we were installing the body. If I had the other tires and wheels on there, they would stick out twice as far so this made our job much easier. Don't want to be tripping on large tires while holding the body in the air now do we?

What your looking at here is my rocker panel which is located at the bottom of the door. What you see here is an area that was fixed by Bart that will have to be fixed again. What happened is when I was fitting the body on the chassis two years ago, it wouldn't sit all the way down on the frame rails so I had to grind away some fiberglass from the each side underneath. Once I was all done removing material so the body would fit, there was an area three or four inches long on each side that broke through. You could see the chassis through each side which was right up against the body in this area so when Bart fixed them, he added some on the inside and outside. The part that was added to the inside was forced outward when the body came to rest installing it and this is why you see the torn area now. Bart said he would be able to fix it and I don't have to remove the body to do the repair. The good news is that this area won't show very much so if the paint doesn't match exactly, then no big deal. When I take the car over to have the graphics painted on, he can do the repair then.

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