Had a good first build day, it was encouraging to find the drivers side to passenger side 4” chassis frame geometry (front to back) was all within 1/8”, also the rear and front wheel arches were also within 1/8”, indicating the body was mounted squarely from the factory.
Spend most of the day removing the body mounting hardware and major components (doors, hood, trunk), with that completed the body was placed onto the body buck for the first time, and with a sigh of relief it fitted. Before the body was removed a sharpie was used to mark the panels with a cut line 3/8” from the body, this will require trimming prior to the panels being finally fitted
After photographing and marking the aluminum panels these were all removed with the exception of the firewall and F panels. After spending most of the day removing body work and panels the first part was officially installed, this being the A-Frame transmission mount (1/2 bolts set at 75ft/lb’s torque, 3/8 bolts set at 30ft/lb’s)
Had a good first build day, it was encouraging to find the drivers side to passenger side 4” chassis frame geometry (front to back) was all within 1/8”, also the rear and front wheel arches were also within 1/8”, indicating the body was mounted squarely from the factory. 
Spend most of the day removing the body mounting hardware and major components (doors, hood, trunk), with that completed the body was placed onto the body buck for the first time, and with a sigh of relief it fitted. Before the body was removed a sharpie was used to mark the panels with a cut line 3/8” from the body, this will require trimming prior to the panels being finally fitted
After photographing and marking the aluminum panels these were all removed with the exception of the firewall and F panels. After spending most of the day removing body work and panels the first part was officially installed, this being the A-Frame transmission mount (1/2 bolts set at 75ft/lb’s torque, 3/8 bolts set at 30ft/lb’s) 
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