[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by SWEETJUDGE

... i would never had thought that

Sweet - I'm not sure what your experience level is with assembly plants but I think there are a lot of things that would surprise the normal "hot rodder/restorer".

I used to be amazed at the different way of doing things that I never would have thought of: painting the secondary color first, and then taping it off and painting the primary color; trimming the body out and installing it to the frame (the normal restorer would likely install the body on the frame and THEN install all the interior trim); installing the front clip as a unit (fenders and rad support together) rather than piecemeal (rad support installed and then each fender individually); painting the body in one end of the plant and the front clip at the other end of the plant (or, worse yet, in a separate part of town!).

I think you get the idea, but there are a lot of unseen constraints that force us to do some pretty unorthodox things, and things that would be very difficult to decipher 30 or 40 years after the fact.

Again - FWIW