I'm using this grey hood and a borrowed striker to mock-up with until the new stuff comes. It looks good except in a couple spots that were spot welded at the wrong spot. Good enough to continue with. Anyway so I set the fender / hood / valance / header gaps like I wanted without too much hassle at all. The hood latch support was causing an issue or two. Moved a hole, added shims, lovely.

But I noticed a little brown stuff when I was tweaking the corners of the header or whatever you call it, so I sanded it back a little-



Aw man... seriously? Face palm.



Thats just un-called-for, now. I reckon the bodyman who did that is probably dead by now so ... what was he thinking? Oh my.











How would you proceed?