March 2005	Trunk, hood, doors
		I decided to install the lower aluminum door panels but install it with screws instead of rivets so I can remove it later if needed. With this piece in place the body bolts are harder to get to. A suggestion from the forum was to use those clip nuts. Sounds like a great idea to me.
		It took repetitive attempts to install the trunk, then sand it down some, then reinstall, then sand again, etc. When the trunk is opened completely (90 degrees to the body) it touches the body. Obviously I don't want that because it may mess up the paint so it took a lot of trail and error. I still need to do a little more sanding and round the edges of the trunk.
		The operation on the hood was pretty much the same. Sand a little, check the fit, sand a little, check the fit, etc. I did not want to sand too much so I got a lot of exercise lifting and sanding the hood. I used a combination of disk sander and orbital sander to take a little off at a time. I used a felt tip marker to mark the hood and this way I could gauge how much I was sanding off.
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