Originally Posted by
Todd Helme
My understanding is a lot of the coat built Italian cars from this vintage are very much like this.
You would not believe the amount of sanding lines and body filler shrinkage on an original paint LP-400 (Countach) that I did. It was just scary, particularly on the lower fenders. Even modern, catalyzed body fillers still shrink to some degree.
I remember reading a post on a Porsche Restorer who was restoring an aluminum bodied Ferrari 308 and the amount of filler on the body was crazy. IIRC, he sanded and scrapped most of it off, swept it into a pile, and weighted it, and it was something like 15 lbs!
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