Let’s talk about body filler and skimming. Skimming is a common practice in the restoration world, and some people look at a car that’s been skimmed and think the shop used body filler as a replacement for metal work. This couldn’t be any more incorrect. Although the car is generally skimmed from headlight to tail light, that does not mean that the filler is thick. We have spent hundreds of hours in metal work on this car getting the bulges shrunken out of the doors, the gaps done to 3/16”, taki