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.
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19/6/2020
Today I spent detail finishing the offside corner inner panel where it meets the boot door and installing the nearside flat lining panels. There is a bit more work to do to the door aperture frame at the bottom right hand corner, which I hope to complete tomorrow.
18/6/2020
Work this week has been concentrated on getting the boot doors right and fitting the inner lining panels for the boot. The right-hand boot door frame has been painted with red primer. I cut a new ply panel but have had problems forming it to the complex curve of the frame. I may have to do this with more flexible ply.
All the hinge plates have been installed ready for refitting the doors and the cladding around the door aperture.
The offside inner lining panels were cut from ply, primed and fitted.
The right-hand inner corner lining has been made out of flexible ply and fitted.