build diary

July 29, 2004: The car looks fantastic!
Of course the first thing I did when I got home was put some of the panels on. Bill Cardell showed up at my garage door to help out and to hang out. We had fun taking my project and making it look like a real car. It's a difficult colour to photograph indoors but I've found that to be true of all Lotus colours - they need the sunlight to really light up. Kind of ironic when you consider the weather in the UK.

I've been concerned with rock "stars" in the fenders. Suggestions have ranged from closed-cell foam to bonded aluminum to "don't worry, the CMC fenders are nice and thick". I'm not 100% sure what my final answer will be - the latter is my favourite because it's cheap and I can bolt everything together right now, but I'd hate to damage that paint.

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