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The top photo shows the last glitch in the trunk area: a manufacturing defect that involves the lip of the trunk lid extending incorrectly beyond the lines of the rear quarter panel on the port side. The bottom corner appears to bend back beyond the lines and the distance to the quarter panel is too short.

The rest of the trunk lid is complete with a minimum of putty and primer. In fact, on the port side of the vehicle, its hood and roof and trunk lid, the body team reduced the factory finish to the original brown primer with a minimum of putty or new primer. The majority of the original primer is intact and will serve as the base for the Hecker refinish. The starboard side used a little more putty and primer yielding a little less original primer. There is absolutely zero bondo-type body filler. The green material is being used to fill in grinder and vandal scratches as well as smoothing out primer and body metal for the 199.

Hence, the final finish will rest on original sheetmetal and most of the original factory primer. Also, this entire job conclusively proves the 8,000 mile 16v was never hit in any manner and sports original sheetmetal pressed at the factory and left untouched until vandals scratched it up and dented it a little. The vandalism will be completely cured when the glassman will replace the front and rear windscreens. The side wind screens are intact.

Three of the team members are in the bottom photo. The glass man is on the far left. The spoiler and plastic refinisher is to the right of the glass man. The body metal man is cutting putty with an air sander.