Rough Body Work
The fiberglass body comes gel-coated but
with rough parting seams from the mold. These run all the way down the tops
of the fenders and across the nose and backend of the body. These have to
be gro
und down and filled and
then the whole body has to be block sanded. This was the most tedious part
of the buildup. I am certainly not a pro but I do OK at body work. It took
me about 100 hours just to do the body prep and priming. The hand sanding
seems endless and I maintained my sanity by interspersing chassis work with
body work.
By the way, at the start just build a body buck to hold the body. That's where I ended up doing most of my body work so that I didn't get sanding dust and overspray on the chassis and subframe.