Neil
That is correct the previous owner gave me the broken piston skirt when I bought the car. As to why new stripes are needed. You know how some projects start out very small and turn into major undertakings. When I purchased the car I noticed a couple of things that there was a small rust issue with the trunk drop offs and that the car had been in a accident at one time in the rear passenger quarter basically above the wheel. We started on the drop off on the passenger side. Thought the rust was just by the vent hole but turned out we replaced the whole drop off as well as the bottom foot of the quarter panel and the bottom of the outside wheel well. When we started on the wheel well we found lots of bondo, part of the accident repair. So we sanded it all off revealing how the quarter was repaired. Looks like they cut a section out took a portion of a different quarter and brazed it together by overlapping on both sides and covering everything with a lot of bondo. Long story short cut it all out repaired it properly and started looking at the bottom of the driver quarter panel. Same rust but not nearly as bad. So we repaired that side also but by the time we where done had a car with one quarter with hardly any paint and the other about half stripped. So when I was that far along I thought I might just as well strip the whole car and start over, in places there where at least eight layers of paint including primer. Hence the new stripe kit. Lesson learned hope for the best but prepare for the worst. lol
