Try, Try again

Now I have this friend of mine named Tom. He actually helped me build my motor and has been rebuilding cars for quite some time. Would you believe me if I told you that he forbid me from using any hammer or any sandpaper coarser than 1000 grit? Well, one day, I asked him over to check a couple things on the car and ended up getting him to commit to doing the final stages of the body work and paint as long as I would help him reconstruct a 69 Firebird and his 92 F150. Needless to say he wished I had contacted him earlier. Most of the putty that had been put on came off. Remember, ALIGN ALL METAL SURFACES FIRST!!! The trunk lid that I had re-skinned ended up being thrown away. It was an extra one I had anyway. I apparently didn't get the correct roll over the back. It was impossible to get the key mechanism to work the lock. I never tried the lock so Tom ended up wasting many hours of getting the lid straight. Also, after many hours of working with the hood, we gave up on it also. Seems it had been in the wreck also and the metal was all stretched. I ended up buying a new hood. As for the lid, I took it apart, had both pieces blasted and Tom made new sections from my junk lid to fix the one that came with the car. We worked with the skin and reassembeled both pieces. It ended up better than a new one. By the way, you can't buy one since they aren't manufactured.