DOOR ALIGN ISSUE

I have been doing body & paint for many years & one of my pet peeves is body panel alignment. Making sure all the gaps are really nice. I am working on a 67 barracuda for a guy & i am in the middle of lining up the left door & fender. I have all the gaps nice except for where the door meets the cowl. The gap is about 3/8 to 7/16 wide. Now normally i would loosen the upper door hing where it bolts to the door & push it in. It will not go in any more. There is no more adjustment. Now i know you have to watch because when doing that the bottom corner at the quarter will move out. Any ways has anyone come across this problem ?

I watched exactly this repair/adjustment done on one of the Resto shows, I think it was Overhaulin. They used 1/8" round steel ready-rod, welded it to the section that needed closing up and then ground it to proper shape. Looked factory when finished. It is TV though so was probably harder than it looked to accomplish!