With the body all in primer, and the insides of the doors and shuts painted the body shop started putting it all back together. The replacement doors and wings were not even close to fitting properly, and they spent a day bending and pulling them to fit better. At the end of it all there was a huge gap at the top of one of the wings that they couldn't get rid of. I went to have a look at it and wasn't happy leaving it. They suggested building it up in fibreglass, but I didn't want to botch it, so got them to cut it and build it up in metal.
The chassis work that needed doing after the accident was getting done by Zane at Zannetec and when I sat down with him to work out exactly what needed to be done, he agreed to fit the AC at the same time as the repairs. The rear axle turned out to have a bent halfshaft and was in need of a rebuild. While it was all in bits Zane also fitted the Baer brakes and rotors for the rear which should balance out my braking system a bit. The AC took a lot of messing about to clear everything, and some of it had to be fabricated to suit.
The Camaro was suffering from soggy carpets, and after a lot of testing with a hosepipe I realised it was the cowl vents and the bizarre way they drain inside the car on a first gen Camaro. I'm taking the opportunity to fit air conditioning and heating to the car, so no longer need the cowl vents to supply fresh air to the cabin. I pulled the panel off the car after struggling to unhook the wipers and measured up for a cardboard template. I've always cut out patterns in metal with the nibbler or the grinder, but now I had a bench grinder and a jigsaw I did it the easy way.