This is the car as it when to the car body specialist. His job was to work the gaps and panel flatness.

Whilst all the body work was going on, I started on the rear parcel shelf. It was also a difficult job as the frame I had looked original but had actually been butchered and rebuilt incorrectly. I managed to get a good peek at my mate’s car which happens to be all untouched.

Hers a few pic’s of the process. 

This shot shows the old timber frame. The side upright sections are original but have had the bottoms cut off  to remove previous dry rot and the bottom rail was a piece of timber from the hardware store with no cut-outs or shape as per the original. The back section was original but in poor condition and the top rail was bent like a banana. So it all had to be remade from scratch.

This is the complete rear parcel shelf covered in leather.

In the booth with Shawn, masked up and ready for colour.

This shot shows the metallic basecoat after spraying  and ready for the clear coats.

The car finally arrives back home on the tray lift and the next few months will be spent fitting up all the pretty looking parts. The paint job has taken since November 07 to get it to this stage and now its March 0 and Shawn has done an outstanding Job.