Webasto Roof Frame Installation for an E-Type Jaguar

After the floors and sills were in, we were starting to get right down to it.  Months of work fitting things so that the rear wheel arches could be done meant that all of the work after they WERE done went REALLY fast!

I got the doors back onto the shell and made a few adjustments around the edges, and fought the top sections of the door skins into place to match the body.  One interesting thing I found out in the process of doing that is that the curved body line at the top of the doors – the “swoop” if you will, is 1/8″ deeper on one side versus the other – not just on THIS E-Type, but ALL of them!  Go out on your car and look – measure the distance from the swoop line at the back of the door to the top of the door – it’s 1/8″ more on the RH side…

Then, we were pretty much done with the shell as far as rotisserie work.  But before I pulled it out, there was one more task on this shell – the installation of the Webasto roof frame.

Even though the customer switched from a 2+2 to a coupe midstream, he still wanted the Webasto roof installed.  So, being a woodworker, he made a NEW frame for the coupe (which fit much better in the coupe than teh factory Webasto 2+2 frame fit the 2+2…), and asked that we cut the hole, brace the corners, and install that here.  Take a look!

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