1961 Bonnet – welded flanges

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We spent MANY hours lining up the pieces of this bonnet – the wings and lower valance were from one bonnet, the center section and inner valances were from another, and there were some new panels as well. In the end, I noticed this while photographing the weld-thru primer – that little brown circle in the corner of the primer strip is a planished out dent from where the corner of the original flange pushed into the skin in an accident long ago. So I guess these flanges are going to end up where they should be! But don’t think we could have just lined them up where they were originally in the first place – it doesn’t work that way. All of the scratches are from the front corner of the inner valance wall during all of our adjusting. Make sure this corner is AT LEAST 1/8″ away from your outer skin during final assembly – gring it down if it isn’t. Otherwise, you risk a puncture of the skin over a big bump down the road – OUCH…

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