Gerahead's 71 Dart

Started to tackle the body line misalignment between the quarter panel and the door jamb last night. I am still mystified how this can happen, but it did. I will post some pix as soon as I get a chance. When I noticed the misalignment, I did not fully weld the seam in that area, knowing that I would want to correct it. I used my air saw to slice through the tack welds in the vicinity of the section I wanted to fix. After making sure that I included all of the factory bends in the removed section, I marked it and stripped the paint in the jamb area to reveal the spot welds. Cut out the spot welds and used a combination of cutting wheel and air saw to remove the body line section. The jamb behind this piece had been bent, so I hammered out the dent so I got a good fit on the piece I just cut out. I set the removed piece back in place to align the body line vertically and marked along the bottom edge to remove that section. Now I can line up the body line between the door, jamb and quarterpanel. It was offset about a 1/2 inch! I intend to re-purpose a piece of the original quarter that I cut out to make an L-shaped patch and weld that sucker in. Then I will be able to finish welding the quarter in and call one side done. L8r