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.
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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.
28/6/2020
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.