The last few days have been about getting the boot ready for paint. Making adjustments to the right-hand door opening including the recess in the boot floor for the catch and making sure the door actually fits in the opening. Next I prepared the aluminium panel that fits below the boot opening, generally straightening and tapping out the various dents. I gave it a coat of primer and workshop grey on the inner face where it is in contact with the frame. The steel sill has a flange that fits over this, so this panel has to go on in sequence before I can install the lino in the boot. Next I sanded the blue inner corner panels next to the rear window as part of the preparation for painting the area around the rear window with Rover Tahiti blue. Finally I filled, sanded and primed the new woodwork below the rear window ready for painting.
1/7/2020
The last two days have been spend making the steel sill cover, which is now complete and the underneath surface primed, and adjusting the fit of the left-hand boot door. I have now removed the outer skin of this and marked up where the catch should be in the boot floor. There is still some work to do replacing the screws to the door frame in the centre hinge and relieving the aperture frame a bit more around the top left-hand curved corner.
29/6/2020
Today I spent some more time relieving the bottom of the LH boot door to enable it to close properly over the sill. In the late afternoon I cut and bent the two steel pieces to form the sill cover. These will be welded together and finished tomorrow, hopefully.