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Air bubbles in fiberglass gelcoat!	Body on mobile buck
Finally, body is on!!!	Roller gas cap - COOL!
Passenger side header cut-out	Driver side header cut-out
Windshield and sideposts	Sideposts drilled for mounting
Windshield bolted in place	Starting to look like a car!!
Another angle - need to mount doors	Love those 295's!!!  FAT!
The view everybody will see ;-)	From the front
Door latch	Roll bar hole.  FFR cut off-center.
Doors, trunk, and rollbar mounted.	Another view of the same.
Bare hood and "horeshoe frame"	Frame riveted to hood
CROOKED!  Hood hinge arms	Hinge mount and cut hinge arms
Centered hinge mounting pads	Arms tack welded after centering hood
Hinge complete and straight!	Wiper and wheelboxes
Wiper arms installed	Cut door hinge
Door hinge mounting flange centered on bolts	Hinge tack welded with door centered
Re-welded hinge and gussetted for strength	Won't be long now!
Almost ready for paint!	Taking the body back off for bodywork
Cut-down body buck	Freshly ground seams
More ground seams	Wow, you can see light through the seams!
West Systems Epoxy -- magic stuff	First layer of epoxy to seal the fiberglass
Taped seams	Epoxy with fairing filler mixed in
Seams finally filled!!!	Freshly bonded door seam
Adding glass to thin fender lip	Finished side louver opening
Ground out offcenter trunk latch hole	Corner filled to match door profile
Gel coat gone from block sanding	Freshly sprayed gel coat to cover bare 'glass
Another shot of the gel coat	PINHOLES!!!!!
Custom molded defroster duct	Hole cut for defrost nozzle
Defroster duct nozzle glassed in	Cutting defroster slots w/ router (3/8" bit)
Freshly cut defroster slot - PERFECT!	Bonded defroster duct
Blocked gel coat over seams	Gel coat again
Doors, hood, trunk right before primer	Freshly sprayed sealer
More sealer	Homegrown spraybooth
More spraybooth	Air outlet filters
Me wet sanding sealer	Me and Don Gaboury laying out stripes
Still laying out stripes.....	still........
Taped off stripes	more taped off stripes.....
Hood and trunk stripes	Me spraying blue...
More blue	The morning after!!!!!
Fresh paint!
	In the sun!  Right before mounting
Really shines!	Metalflake!
Mounting the body!!!!
	THE CREW! Angie & Scott Brooke, ME, Travis Grabb, Don & Mary Jo Gaboury, Judy and John Wilkins, Kevin Moses