My Nobels's bodies seem over all pretty good also. However they could use some reinforcing around the apertures- particularly above and behind the door top's section of their roofs, and especially just ahead of their rear windows along st their sides, where it is particularly flexible and almost always marked by gel coat stress cracks. I may use carbon fiber reinforcement here to keep the panel from getting too thick for the weatherstipping window seal.
Does any body know where i can get this and the door aperture weatherstripping for my Nobels?
The other problems with the Nobel's fiberglass is caused by their use of an extremely coarsely braided weave of fiberglass strips that they routinely used to bond panels together. On the hinged spines of their doors, they apparently used preformed high density, and well finished pieces of flat molded fiberglass, but attached these to their convexly curved door skins with the aforementioned extremely coarse resin impregnated strips. In this location, they apparently bonded almost well enough, but due to the extremely coarse weave, the bonding strips necessarily gaped the right angle intersection of these perpendicular surfaces, leaving a hollow under the arch of the bridged structure thus formed. When repairing the inevitable door spine tragedies incurred by the combination of suicide doors, a wiggly latching mechanism, worn hinges, and a non elastic restraining strap- I take the opportunity to improve this structure.
Worst is where they used this same technique to attach the ply wood firewall and parcel tray to the body shell. I have had some of these completely detach.
