Pulling my hair out fitting panels!

[Rust Buster]

I am really bummed. I've spent the last several months working the original sheetmetal on my build (link below) to get all the panels lined up. I finally gave up and bought all new tri-plus doors, fenders, and hood.

So I spent one weekend on the doors, figured out that the PO had replaced the rockers way back when and had installed them too high, which threw everything off. Fixed that, and decided to go back and use the original doors because they are just much much beefier and well made. Had to cut the hoops and re-weld them to match the top door opening.

Now the fenders and hood... It is hard to tell from my pics, and they look worse in person, but the Tri-plus hoods and fenders do not match in contour (top of fender and sides of hood). The front slope of the hood is not as steep as the fenders. How can this be, and what to do? I'm thinking it is better to cut the fenders and reslope them since they don't get banged around like the hood. Any thoughts are very much appreciated. I've been through a few original 67-68 hoods and they all needed more work than they are worth and all had the dent/sag in the center.