October 1, '23 UPDATE

Well, closed out September on a somewhat productive note, but nothing really to brag about....

I made a front fender template so I could locate and mark the body side molding and GRAN TORINO emblems on my driver side front fender....

I placed the passenger side fender up on the padded hood setting on a couple saw horses and then stretched a piece of Saran Wrap along the fender and taped it into place to act as my base material...

Next I applied two layers of marking tape, applied in opposing directions, to try and minimize the stretch of the clear plastic and to capture the contour of the fender....

I took a broad tipped Sharpie and marked the edges of the fender at the door and wheel openings and then took a small flat file and filed along the edge of those openings to better transfer the panel edges onto the tape so I would have a more accurate cut line....

I next used the round tapered end of the Sharpie to press the template into the mounting holes to form a depression of their location....

and I then removed the template from the fender....

Took the template over to the work bench and first trimmed it along the edge lines and then cut of the excess along the top and bottom of the piece. Got out my gasket punch kit and found two punches the size of the openings in the fender and punched out the holes on the template....

I set the driver side fender onto the padded hood and then flipped over and dry fit the template to the  fender. Once I had it positioned correctly, I taped it down to the fender....

I once again again used the Sharpie to mark the hole locations onto the fender. For the GRAN TORINO emblem holes, I marked the first and last hole and then removed and flipped the template back over so I had the smaller pattern closest to the wheel opening so the emblems would be in the correct order...

With the template made and the fender marked, I turned my attention back to the car and applied a coat of POR-15 followed by an initial coat of Eastwood Satin Chassis Black to the pass thru plate I made to allow the rear seat arm rest access panel to open into the trunk like it did on the donor car.....

So next on the agenda is to crawl under the car and get the underbody, chassis and suspension cleaned back up.

Hoping to have the underside of the car and the core support assembly all clean up as well and ready to rehang onto the car by the end of the month.

Stay tuned....

ZEBRA 3 OUT