Kevin et al,
The curved corners can be overcome. It takes a little work though. My Tiger
has a converted curved corner trunk lid from an Alpine parts car. The Tiger
trunk lid was too rusty for sound repair.
Unpeel the lid skin from the structural frame. Add appropriate sheet metal
for the corners to the skin and frame member via welding. Smooth the weld
joints from both sides. Sand blast inside and out. Prime and paint inside
the frame and skin. Crimp the skin back on the structural frame, smooth and
paint. This has the obvious advantage of protecting the metal between the
frame and the skin. Of course it's a lot of work and if you unpeel the skin
on the original dented trunk lid you can probably do a pretty good job
hammer-and-dollying the metal back to shape such that you don't need an old
Alpine hood.
A good body shop could do this but I suppose it defeats the initial purpose
of trying to keep the costs down to avoid having the other guy's insurance
be threatened. BTW that's quite noble of you Kevin.
Regards,
Rob Kempinski
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From: gibbons
To: adams
Cc: kevnmeek; alpines; tigers; adams
Subject: Re: Waah! Alpine gets (yet another) dent!
Date: Thursday, January 12, 1995 10:32AM
On Thu, 12 Jan 1995, John Adams wrote:
> Drag. I know a body shop down here (LA) parting a series III. The front
was
in
> pretty good shape. Did the hoods change between I and III?
>
I think the rear corners may be different.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons(at)northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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