I only wish that your car would have rolled out of our Darlington , Sc facility 6 months ago . You would have jumped with joy . Soory !
Possibly, Raymond. However, mine rolled out 14 months ago, and I'm not jumping for Joy. There is not a statement in my post that is untrue to my knowledge. As I said, the door and trunk fitment is great. The gelcoat and the general shape of the body is fine also. It will not take a lot of work to put a nice paint job on it. However, the rest still stands.

The inside window molding had gaps and didn't fit worth a darn. I had to completely redo them. The interior windshield molding doesn't fit at all, and the finishing around the windshield opening needs to be completely redone at the A pillars. You mention expectations. Well, I expected them to be close. How do you explain the rear package shelf being close to 2" out of level in the width of the car? How do you explain the fact that the body hit the transmission at the firewall AND in the tunnel- and the setup was supposed to be for the same engine and trans I used? How do you explain the fact that it STILL hit the tunnel (both servo and oil cooling lines)after I brought it back to Darlington (at my expense) with the engine and trans installed and you supposedly fixed it. Instead of refitting the tunnel, you simply cut out pieces and grafted more over the top. There are places in the tunnel where there are 3 layers of glass, and it's over 1 1/2 inches thick. Makes it a lot of fun when trying to install shifters and emergency brakes. Where the "repaired" tunnel was reattached to the firewall, the glass is so thick that installing a brake pedal was a real adventure. When you repaired the firewall, you put so much glass over the frame rails that it raised the body up 3/8", and destroyed the fit to the hood and hood side panels. The screws that hold the hood side panels to to the hood opening mechanism are drilled at an angle so the screws won't go in straight. When I cut the rear valence for tail lights one side of it was so thick that the studs to attach the lights won't reach. The wood reinforcing panels in the trunk are all set at wierd angles, and nothing is square. The body was just dropped over the frame and glassed in place. NOTHING underneath was finished.

You talk about customer expectations. Well, I expected to do a lot of finishing. However, I didn't expect to redo a whole litany of items that should have been done correctly in the first place.

If you want to come get the body - at your expense - and make it work like you say they should, you're certainly welcome. If not, my post stands. You can attribute it to an unreasonable customer, but in my book, that's not a reason . . . it's an excuse.