A lot of keyboard sheetmetal guys put AMD wayyyy up on a pedestal and call them plug and play panels, but obviously from your posts and feedback from us other guys about AMD, their perfection panels do not exist. Now compared to some other manufactures, they do have the best fit, but again, obviously not perfect. I've heard that the Charger panels gave folks headaches from time to time Hunt2elk. Especially if they've been running the tooling for quite a while. I too had conversations with AMD about panel issues on my RR. One of the issues they admitted to having complaints, the others said they had no negative feedback, which was pretty unbelievable.
Myself I would send AMD a pic of that crap fitment with the deck filler, tell them to send you another to see if it fits better and if it doesn't...well, use it to graft out a slice to extend the other. Either that or graft in your own cut/shaped metal. Lot of extra work....almost be worth looking for a donor, but that would be like trying to find Atlantis. I'm sure you could massage the quarter/deck filler to get a little closer, but my guess is in the end you're still gonna end up with a bit of an irregular gap.
As far as your tail light issue..I'd be pretty ticked as well. That is a lot of extra work. Pay that much money, a guy would figure they'd be right, but not so much. All part of the fun I guess.
Thought I would start a thread on my current project. The car was from Michigan and last tagged in 1982. Shows 71,000 miles. Was F3 ext., F8 int., green vinyl top with a black rump strip. 440, 4-speed, trac pac, tic-toc-tac, and Galin Govier inspected. I looked for a couple of years to find what I wanted, this having everything important to me except the color combo. The original motor is long gone, but most everything else is there. So far I have gotten it stripped down, media-sand blasted, epoxy primered, a plan concocted, enough AMD metal delivered to be a stocholder, and ready to start on metal replacement this winter. Just finished the inner fenders.
