Replacing the Boot Floor and filler panels

One of the last areas to take care of on this shell was the boot floor.  Before the shell was blasted, I was thinking we’d be able to get away with NOT replacing the filler panels as well, but after getting a good look at the bare metal, there was no chance – they had to come out.

These filler panels are different between coupes and roadsters – the coupes simply wrap around the license lamp panels with a 1/2″ flange, and then those panels are smoothed out with copious amounts of lead filler.

On the roadsters, these panels have a 1/4″ step on the edge that is spoit-welded to a matching edge on the license panel, then the license area has a chrome strip covering this seam.

The “usual supplier” makes these panels, but they are WAY off – they are one of the panels that are never right…  So we wheeled up a couple of panels and fitted them to this shell specifically – which is how we handle these fillers on all E-Types.

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