Showing posts with label new boot panel in place. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new boot panel in place. Show all posts

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Replacement of boot floor






It's been a while since my last post. As with most things, sometimes life gets in the way of a project.  I have made progress however with the replacement of rust panels on the car.  The boot floor was in a pretty bad way (as with most cars 50+ years old :) ).  Rather than 'bog' it up (which wasn't considered), I took the time to remove the old rusted floor and side panels.  Cut some serviceable boot side panels off another rear body and weld in place along with a new floor panel from Kilmartins.
It's a still a work in progress at this time, as I still need to cleanup a lot of the plug welds.  One thing that a group of 5 or so photos can't show is the time that it has taken to cut shape, grind, clamp, weld, grind, paint, shape.....etc to get to a point where the panel is once again presentable.  I would say that it has taken more than 15 hours to get to point.  Next post to follow soon will be the finished product.