Reply To: Down to the last bolt. Now the fun begins

[Edgar Minnie]

The fasteners. As well as adding braces to the doors to prevent twisting and warping. Holding doors on with wood screws is a poor idea. We machine new bolts that look like screws and secure them using a steel backing plate with nuts welded on the back. Often touring cars have worn out driver door hinges. They often need to be recast as they are difficult to repair. It’s difficult for people with little experience in coach building to properly restore these cars. Most shops can paint well, getting correct panel fit and body alignment is difficult. It’s common to see cars with nice paint and poor body gaps, hood alignment issues, and other problems when modern shops do cars of this vintage. To get everything correct, one usually needs to assemble and disassemble the car several times to get everything right.