Quote Originally Posted by Turbocharged400sbc View Post
dude the bumer of the other car was above the rocker...and being aglancing blow it looks like the worst spot is probably right at the lower door hinge. if the rocker had seen ANY force the cladding would be broken. you can see the door skins over the rocker thresholds....

the top of the B pillar is kinda hard to tell if its tape residue or an actual crease/dimple.

even then id pull the bugger out and slap two doors on it and get rid of my rusty beatup, 97 gtp with wooden rear sturt mounts
I'm with you on flyin a kite given the condition and the fact its not a coupe, but 180K cars have lots of miles left with the usual fixes.

I can go one more round on the friendly bodywork debate, too. Bet we'll never know whats behind those doors because I'm betting dezebe didn't open them ha ha. My thought is that as I've often seen, that cladding lies (clips rip off) and the hinge area pulls the surrounding metal in with it. I fixed wrecks for a decade and have some experience with being sideswiped in a GP, albeit a coupe. Even if, as we agree, any pulling was cake, there would be a bit of labor in regaining proper gaps and seals all over. Car kinda looks like a bomb, and its just sadder when special ones die. But there were a LOT of "special" GPs made. I was trucking along at 45 and caught an uninsured Focus in the door in this pic. The roof wrinkled around the sunroof opening and the pillar is definitely flattened but I was able to easily fit a replacement door without pulling and the seals still hit. Black door cost under 250 shipped and added 3K in insurance value. Just sayin. JY parts are SO plentiful, I think nobody should buy new and everybody should drive fixed junk.