Made the rounds of the local bodyshops Friday, hoping to get some idea as to
what could be done for a bent bootlid. I was not encouraged.
Body Shop #1: Can't do anything for it.
BS #2: Well, here's your problem. You got a bent lid! Looky here, your
panel's seperated from its supports!
BS #3: I'd get a new one, if I were you.
I've got a replacement from an earlier car. I put it on, and it's got the
same problem: a hump/gap about midway down the left side. It occured to me
that with a 23-year-old car that at some point somebody didn't realize that
closing the boot takes two hands, and this hump/gap is the logical
consequence. Is this a common problem on B's, and is there some "approved
methodology" of removing it? I understand during the building of the
original bodies(and the Heritage shells as well) that the workers were quite
adept at making the panels fit...with prybars!
Question #2: What do you folks in small towns, far from any expertise in
LBC's do when you can't find a repairperson who knows what he/she is doing?
Thanks
Dennis "75 miles from anywhere" Littrell
'73 B Roadster "Shirley Valentine"
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