Tony's 40 ford

The next step is to shorten the trunk lid four inches. We started by drilling 1/8" holes through the top and bottom panels evry six inches or so around the edge. This will give us something to register the pieces back together with clecos when we get to re-assembly.

Next up we ground the edge with an angle grinder and then peeled off the strip of the outer skin that was folded over the inner panel.

This allowed us to separate the inner and outer panels

Shotening the outer, or top, panel will be easy enough. We'll just cut four inches right off the top where we've drawn that line. The inner, or bottom, panel will have to be cut in several pieces and "jig-sawed" back together to look right.