Oops. It's easier if you do one side a time, starting with the one that's the worst.

 

No worries. Looks like your doing fine. DO NOT do any final welding until EVERYTHING is fit and you are satisfied with that fit. If you hang the 1/4 make sure you have the taillight panel, decklid, doors and valence on to insure everything lines up. Then weld away...

 

And when you start the spot welding, don't start in one spot and work your way around from there.
Heating up a quarter panel like that can cause shifting in the structure/panels and you can wind up with ugly gaps that were not there when you started.
Jump around with the spot welds. Two or three on one side or area and then jump to another area. Not saying it is a guarantee it will happen, but from personal experience, it can.

 

Well its either I can pasy to have it done for 1400 in labor cost or I can do it my self and save on the labor... so are yall saying this is something I can takle my self?

 

Measure once, twice, three times, 4 times, then weld. A couple of extra hours spent fitting the gaps will be well worth the effort.

 

Invest in some cleko's and pop everything together and trial fit the rear glass before you weld anything.

I would almost consider getting a spot welder to get to the obvious welds when you get ready to weld, it saves a bunch of time grinding welds back down.

 

I'm at the same point with my 66 GT fastback. Yours is looking good!

 

All of the above is good advice. Get a bag of Cleco's, or at least a bag of sheetmetal screws. Clip or screw the whole thing together, including the decklid and valence, and pattern your welds just like you would the bolt torque on a manifold.

 

I screwed mine together with self tappers. Cheaper than clekos and leaves a smaller hole.
You've gone this far, might as well finish it up...

 

Problem



Problem with screwing together. Unless you make the hole in the layer of metal closest to the head of the screw larger than the screw diameter, the two layers of sheet metal won't be SQUEEZED together.

Clecos alway squeeze the two layers together snugly.

 

I like to use clamps to get the panels as tight as needed, then use self tappers.

I used a minimum of screws, with lots of clamps to minimize through holes. In some places they are unavoidable, plus you need some to be able to take it apart, and put back together in the exact same spot.