Earlier this month I mentioned some problems with the left hand front inner wing on this body. But I managed to lay my hands on a new one. Though it wasn’t an original one, but a replica that originated from Rimmer Bros. And trial fitting it on the car’s body and on the inside of an original outer wing clearly showed it wasn’t an original part. Quality control has been rather poor on this part to say the least! The gap at the back of the wing is about an inch wide.
Luckily one of the left hand inner wings in my stock did have a good rear section. In other words, the angle grinder has been called upon again. The front one-third of the new wing was combined with the rear two-thirds of an inner wing from my spares stock. The welding line being clearly visible in the picture below:
And combining the two panels provided a good mounting surface for the outer wing . As the picture blow shows, the gap between door and front wing is already pretty good. As is the alignment with the nose panel:
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