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After reading and looking closely at Phil's work to get the correct gapping on the door to the front fender and his great advice on the door panel installation tool from Wivco I can now finally get to grips as to why the gap on my car is at its worst just over 5mm in some areas.
1). My wings ( fenders ) are original when I bought the car the body paint was original and the interior still is. But, the even though the car was just under ten years old when I bought it tell tail bubbles started appearing I guess almost from when I bought it as a daily runner. Proceed forward to 1975 and I knew it needed bodywork repairs and then over about 3 years I cut and replaced areas we all know about now. Then I had to cut and form the repair panels and I leaded them. As I have mentioned more than once, often I had to be over generous with the lead!!
2). The first mistake in 77 was not to take the body down to bare metal before I sprayed it for the first time. I knew about sand blasting then but not media blasting. DIY for me was a block and removing the top surface of my meissen blue except where I welded here I sanded to remove all paint.
3). In 77 I had the meissen blue matched. A mistake that colour is special in it mix of blue and green very hard to copy unless you know the mix. I had little idea where to go then with the door paint code.
4). Wind on to 89. The repair work was still good but I knew then more about where to get the colour code paint. My 77 spray was made using a home made set up a beer barrel receiver my friend said would be fine, a pump that was too small and a gun that was not the best.
Also I was spraying cellulose and still used this 89 but now with a hired compressor with 7CFM good spray gun and a large receiver with a super mixed paint to the paint code.
But again I just flattened the paint for preparation. Big mistake. After 25 years it has the small micro blisters on some flat areas of the car which must be caused from the paint layers underneath. Also
the door shut area's are now of course after thinking about it very thick with old and new paint!!
My next post to this thread shows the photos I took yesterday to explain more.
Roy
1). My wings ( fenders ) are original when I bought the car the body paint was original and the interior still is. But, the even though the car was just under ten years old when I bought it tell tail bubbles started appearing I guess almost from when I bought it as a daily runner. Proceed forward to 1975 and I knew it needed bodywork repairs and then over about 3 years I cut and replaced areas we all know about now. Then I had to cut and form the repair panels and I leaded them. As I have mentioned more than once, often I had to be over generous with the lead!!
2). The first mistake in 77 was not to take the body down to bare metal before I sprayed it for the first time. I knew about sand blasting then but not media blasting. DIY for me was a block and removing the top surface of my meissen blue except where I welded here I sanded to remove all paint.
3). In 77 I had the meissen blue matched. A mistake that colour is special in it mix of blue and green very hard to copy unless you know the mix. I had little idea where to go then with the door paint code.
4). Wind on to 89. The repair work was still good but I knew then more about where to get the colour code paint. My 77 spray was made using a home made set up a beer barrel receiver my friend said would be fine, a pump that was too small and a gun that was not the best.
Also I was spraying cellulose and still used this 89 but now with a hired compressor with 7CFM good spray gun and a large receiver with a super mixed paint to the paint code.
But again I just flattened the paint for preparation. Big mistake. After 25 years it has the small micro blisters on some flat areas of the car which must be caused from the paint layers underneath. Also
the door shut area's are now of course after thinking about it very thick with old and new paint!!
My next post to this thread shows the photos I took yesterday to explain more.
Roy
To much math and way too technical for my tiny brain. 
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