I find it strange the process in how these guys are doing your car... sand this part, fill it, aligh the whold car before its painted!? this and that part then the rest of the car, rolling the fenders with the paint still on...

If its working its working I just think its ass backwards...

Yes you do align the panels before it's painted, not after

oh and who cares if the paint is still on the fender lip, doesn't matter if it cracks....

It's all in the beat.........

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Mark Landen

Stephane, didn't you say the doors, fenders, trunklin and hood are all coming off to be painted? Bare metal to me means every crevice, and that can onyl be done by removing all removable (non-welded) panels. Why align everything if it's just coming off to be painted, then put back on and needing to be re-aligned?

Cory: I'm not a body guy, but here's my theory. If you take the car apart, take it down to bare metal, paint it, THEN put it back together... what do you do when you can't get the panels to align? It's already painted!

I can see aligning and shaping everything first, THEN take it apart and stripping/sanding all the crevices, and lastly painting it... then everything should be able to be re-assembled into it's perfectly aligned state.

I suppose it makes sense. After taking everything apart though some alignment will be necessary. I've found when removing front clips and such and putting them back on, using the same exact shims and such in the same locations, a good amount of time is spent on alignment, and sometimes additional minor adjustments need to be made. I suppose a pre-disassembly alignment would make post-paint assembly and alignment a little easier since you have a better starting point?

I'm not a body man either. Just some minor dent/ding removal and stuff like that. Never actually stripped, repaired and painted a car so I don't know for sure.

I did mine with a 2 lb hammer, so yours should look a whole lot nicer LOL. Actually, in the rear I sectioned the inner lip and rolled it up with the hammer. The lip is intact. Seems one of the key things to metal work is slow and steady, light, even hits. Drives me nuts.

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I have a habit of catching little details. I think it comes from my days in the Boy Scouts of America.
Anyway, I saw an episode of OverHaulin where they did a 67 Gal I think. Anyways my point is that after they stripped all of the interior and "scrap" off of the car they spent a lot of time aligning all of the panels and drilling very small pilot holes at all of the joints and hinges and critical spots. They said it was to make the reassembly go smoothly. Makes perfect sense to me to do it that way.
Besides all of that, I am happy to see the progress step by step and even if it ain't exactly how we would do it, we are not doing it!
I'll bet it's going to be just fine for you Stephane, keep us updated.