Bad News from Body Shop - Time and Money Can Fix Anything!

Guess things had been going too well.  Darrell called today, said he couldn't get the hood to sit right inside the front fenders.  Turns out when the car was wrecked on the driver's side front  upper, inside sheet metal was shoved over to the passenger side, making the rectangular opening for the hood kind of diamond shaped.  The fenders and front clip can all be mounted correctly, they're all just shifted over to one side.  I captured the effect in photos, shot from front down towards ground but even with outside edge of fender, drivers side first:

Notice how you can see most of the knockoff protruding from the fender.  Then here's the same view on the passenger side:

Almost none of the knockoff is visible.  So we believe the frame is OK (wheels are attached to the frame of course) but the sheet metal the fenders attached too is shifted towards the passenger side by about 1/2 inch.  Looks like the car will be making a trip to a friend of Darrell's who has a frame jig where he can push/pull the upper interior sheet metal into it's correct position.

Here's some more pictures, Darrell is doing very nice work, under hood looks great, inside spare tire compartment looks good, front clip is very straight, door jambs are painted.  If Darrell had not run into this "bent front end" issue he thinks he would have had it painted by the end of this week!