The pissing matches aside, I will say from the half dozen A-Bodys I have owned that this doesn't look like the factory welds from my experiences. But thats just my experiences, and not to discredit Jim Lusk and the vast history he has had with them either. The fact is back in the day these cars were built they were indeed done with varying welding processes, and SMAW was used on them, and by a human who very well could have been having a off day.
I'm not saying it was definitely a factory weld, but after the last k-member I picked up (which looks worse than this) anything is possible from the factory. The sloppiness that I have seen over the years is shocking.
