especially on a white z, plus I couldn't think or find a reasonable way to prep it for the paint. I was thinking about filling the strip in. While I had rest of the car apart I was sitting there with the welder and looked over at my spare metal storage box and was thinking " I wonder what it would look like if I shaved the body line where the strip is." I'll probably end up doing it sometime on a different car. I'm hoping to get another Z with a clean title and turn this one into the race car. If the wife lets me that is.