The last few days have been spent filling, preparing and painting the inner lining walls of the boot. The outer surfaces have been painted red-brown to match the colour of the original (mostly rotted or split) wall panels. I applied two coats of the brown to seal the plywood properly. The inside faces are in white undercoat, awaiting the correct ochre brown final colour. Next I turned my attention to the left-hand (nearside) boot door and found that it was just as poor a fit as the right hand door. This necessitated removal of material from the bottom of the door frame, the boot floor sill and the top left-hand (curved) corner of the door aperture. It is impossible to see how the door can ever have fitted properly with the body frame the dimensions it has now.
Category Archives: AEC Regal
23/6/2020
I fitted some support for the bottom of the curved lining panel to stiffen a bit where it meets the floor and to fill the gap at the bottom. This was fitted from the outside, so I can run sealant around the inside at floor level. I still need to put a couple of screws into the mid-level support for the lining panel and open out the hole for the tail lights.
Late morning I filled over the fibreglass repair to the gangway support in the boot, it will need a final finish tomorrow before painting but is just about done.
22/6/2020
I installed the nearside curved corner boot lining panel yesterday and spent today trimming it to fit around the boot door aperture.
I also filled the gaps between the sections of the boot lining and replaced the screws in the rear seat support brackets – these had to be removed for the curved section of lining to be fitted.
In the afternoon I repaired some holes in the gangway well in the boot roof with fibreglass, this will need to be filled over and sanded tomorrow.