gas struts for Duster hood

a recipe for being really unhappy when the bondo lets loose and takes out your windshield.....

What? Please find a new bodyman (oh sorry, bodyperson, for any snowflakes) Bondo is not for filling divots and such. It's for finish work, after hours of hammer and dolly work, of shrinking and filing, of pin welding and slide hammering or even glue and cup pulls. Good body work might need a 16th of an inch and most of that would be sanded away. Even if by some chance it could come loose. It would be like a maple leaf hitting the windshield. The days of mixing up a 1/2" thick layer I would hope are long since gone. But, maybe that's just me.