The overall body jig was designed with each original tooling hole accurately locating each panel. No clamping or welding points are sacrificed to work around the fixture. When the jig is removed from the completed body, it is not a "ship in the bottle" situation.
“The fixture even has different go/no-go gauges mounted on the jig during the assembly process,” Whitaker explains. “These gauges are not used to hold any panels. They ensure the doors, all hinges, and window openings are accurately located and are to shape. We want customers to have as little bodywork or fitment issues around the window glass as absolutely possible.”
Many of the panels from Golden Star Auto have been designed to include multiple steps in the shaping process. These new manufacturing processes follow the latest in automobile manufacturing technology. During the panel forming, a multistage process separates stamping and metal stretching as two different steps to remove tension in a finished panel.