The front body work continues

 While getting the wings fitted and tightened down it was also necessary to begin fitting the bonnet and valance. These all need to be adjusted relative to one another.
The grille was bent up from the old collision and never straightened properly, so it had to be straightened to nominal order before attempting to do the panel fitting. It still needs detailed restorative work.

 

 

At this point I found that the repairs to the front area of the wings needed further work to match up with the bonnet and the recessed grille trim. This involved some re-welding on the left wing, and some filling.
 

 The new BMH valance is a poor fit where the holes are punched. All of the outboard holes were mis-placed, and not the same or symmetrical from the left to thte right sides. I had to enlarge most holes and completely re-drill some. The extra holes will have to be filled in.