Very nice job! I too do some of my best thinking in the middle of the night.
@stovebolt-6 I was reading a "Buyer's Guide" a while back. I don't remember the publication that printed it. Their advice was to look for precise, even gaps on cars clear back to the 20s. They even said that wide/uneven gaps were a sign the car had been worked on. As a young man I was a body man and worked daily on cars from the 30s and up. It wasn't daily, but I also laid hands on older. I can tell you from personal experience that that advice is 180 degrees wrong. Gaps didn't start becoming important until the auto design renaissance that started in the 50s and gained importance when imports started kicking our butts in the 70s. Starting in the 50s, each generation of car had better fit & finish than the last. My Buyer's Guide: If you find an antique car with perfect gaps, it's been worked on so get your magnet out and look underneath for hidden damage/repairs.
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