Boot Strip February 08

As I continued to be driven to see bare metal I worked
my way to the boot. There was some pretty hideous
rust in the little pocket areas by the side marker lamps.

The TR's rear end. 

You can just see the side marker lamp pocket through the

tail light hole on the right.

 

A close up of the pocket, obviously a place for water to

congregate.

The spare tire compartment. Another out of sight out of

mind area of the car in dire need of a little attention. You

can see here also the finished fuel tank shelf area.

A shot of the rear wheel well and part of the spare tire

compartment. I've already scrapped off most of the seam

sealer that some Brit slopped on in such ginormous

quantities. It comes easily, at least initially.

This is the rear corner where the tail light assembly mounts.

The only real significant rust I found was in the side marker

lamp pocket.

This is a large and unexplained hole in the bottom rear of the

spare tire compartment. You can just see part of the rear

valence through the hole. There was a big metal plug that

was pop riveted on and again ginormous amounts of seam

sealer.

The bottom and front wall of the spare tire compartment are

stripped here. I do eventually strip the other three walls and

up about two inches along the wheel well and fender. I

wanted to remove all of the old seam sealer.

Another shot of the same area, you can that there was some

significant rust in the upper right hand corner but again not

bad, relatively speaking.

An interesting shot from inside the boot looking forward up
into the foot wells. You can see just how much work was
done up to this point. Working in confined areas with the
Jasco chemical stripper left me feeling woozy many times
and probably caused permanent brain damage. Which may
explain some of the later projects we get into with this old
English lump.