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.