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.
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.