body panel alignment problem

[elcamino]

Probably not the reason for your no-fit but years ago I painted up my 64 Impala. The cowl screen panel was pitted so they sandblasted it to remove all the surface rust and paint. Then painted it and left it for me to install as I told them to do that. It drove me half crazy shimming and fooling with it on and off for weeks as I put the car back together as it would not fit right Finally one saturday I was looking for some door internal hardware parts and decided to take the good cowl panel from the junk yard parts car. Thats when I realized the body sandblasting had distorted the panel. To much blasting caused the metal to heat up and distort. You could tell the different in the panel when it was compared to one that was never touched. I had the replacement painted but did not sandblast it. The shop had a young guy (owner's son's son) that did the blasting and he apparently was never told to be careful with small parts.