[thorconstr]

Originally posted by thorconstr
Lowell, This is a direct quote from the Kirkham brochure, and the press probably does just as you said, "take the hammer marks out."

To quote the Kirkham brochure,

"We took our own Cobra, CSX3104, as the basis for establishing the accurate geometry for our cars. First, we digitized the original car's body and created a computer model from which we CNC-machined an exceedingly accurate master buck of the entire body. During this process, we did something most other manufacturers overlook---we made the body symmetrical.
Body panels are beaten by hand close to their final shape, over tools created from the master buck. Then, both the tool and the panel are slid under an enormous press where the panels are given their final shape."