I posted something along these lines last year on this forum, and am revisiting it now after the kit is complete - go figure :-) "Regular Maintenance" is not checking tire pressure and oil level on my kit. I am tweaking this or that, and chasing rattles, adjusting the suspension, cleaning up a few items that I hurried through getting the car on the road, yadda, yadda. This is one of those items I am revisiting.

As most here know already, there are precious few places to actually mount the body to the frame. There are the rear struts to the duck tail, and a connection series between pontoons and front wheel well aluminum, and friction fit with the dash and with the bonnet, and most importantly, rivets on the door post pillars and along the bottom of the door sill. That little "L section" of the sill is really how the body is secured to the frame. Have I missed something?

I really want to bolster the attachment in the vicinity of the door sills to stiffen things up a bit. Fortunately this is not hard to do after the fact. Just have to remove the side pipes and try not to screw up the paint ...

I have 3/16" SS rivets clamping the body door sills between frame runners and SS Door Sill "L-panels" that came with the kit. I am considering adding two or three more rivets along the inset body section where the twin pipes lie, directly to the lower outside chassis rails. If anything, just to pull the lower body in tighter against the frame.

I am wondering if others have done this already and what recommendations might be.

As an aside, I took the Coupe out this past Saturday for it's first showing at the Shelby American Collection's somewhat monthly "Cars and Coffee" meet. Even though they have one of the originals in the museum there, they don't get to see too many Coupes. I didn't really build my car to be a show car; rather a beast to run up and down the twisties on the CO front range and other places in my big back yard. However, bugs on the windshield or not, there was a lot of interest in this little beast - Hah!

Thx in advance for any comments ...