Given that it was stainless, how was body panel repaired when you can’t paint over the bondo?
Lots of dolly hammering and panel replacement?
“Given that it was stainless, how was body panel repaired when you can’t paint over the bondo?”
Answer: New sheetmetal. At least with stainless, theoretically you could hammer a small dent back into shape although stainless might be more brittle than ordinary sheetmetal. With the brushed finish of the DeLorean, I suspect that there was a specific wire/fiber brush used to create that finish.
Now with aluminum body panels, things get worse: aluminum will stretch, not really crease or dent. So, you can’t really bang aluminum back into shape, it has to be “shrunk”. Only incredibly skilled and patient (= VERY expensive) craftsmen can do this. Generally, new sheetmetal is cheaper, and generally, it’s WAY more expensive than steel sheetmetal. For example, the (rather small) hood for my 1980’s Mercedes is well over 4K list.