[DML] One for the books

["Scott Cagle" <sharkywtrs@xxxx>]

Ok guys, prepare yourself for a story to go down in history. Everyone has had the infamous "door hits the Tpanel" story, but mine goes a little further down. It started last week when my cousin opened the passenger door, and it made that wonderful "thump" before opening. 2 more times, it wouldn't open more than halfway because of how much of the door was hitting the panel. Also, the passenger side quarter panel had shifted down about 2 inches. There was something forcing it off. So, fearing losing the panel while limping back home, I forced the door up, bending the tpanel even worse, but guess what I found? The piston support bolt that SHOULD be mounted to the fiberglass body had been mounted, of all places, to the filler plate that is used to hold up the weatherstripping. This was the only thing holding the door up. Behind it, where the support brackets should be, is a very large hole. Obviously, this bracket has been torn out at one time. They've welded the bracket to two pieces of steel and bolted them to the filler plate. I'm going to try to get a good picture of this wonderful piece of craftmanship and put it in the vault for all to wonder at. How it held up this long is beyond me. So now, I have to refill the hole in the pontoon body, replace the bracket, reallign the door, and replace the tpanel. All because someone was too lazy to take the car to a fiberglass specialist. I just thought I'd pass this story along. Needless to say, 16738 will be down for a while.

Scott



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