Hi All.
Our new project , a 72 car, has been standing for 35 years, undercover, but the window rubbers have perished and separated where they join together at the bottom and water has got in and rusted the front footwells from inside out. So when you sit in the car, the horizontal piece that your foot is on is full of very small holes. If you have a light under the car, and turn the main garage light off, its almost disco like with the light shining through the floor.
I therefore have to replace something. Can anyone advise as to which pieces I need to buy please. The centre of the floor looks OK, and the car itself is rust free, and has spent all its life in provence, so no rust problems except this. I see on the Fransoze catalogue all sorts of pieces available, as in other R4 parts catalogues, but which? Some are smooth, some have shapes pressed in, some have angled edges, some don't. Some are complete floors and others are tiny bits. So, has anyone got advice please. I will not be doing welding myself, so some one yet to be found will do it. I don't want to take off the torsion bars if I can help it. I would like to think that as all the surrounding is in great condition, that I could disc out the panels, leaving the last bit as an edge, that can carry a plate underneath, or support a dropped in floor plate, which a welder can fix. I am trying to understand what i am trying to do. Thanks all.
Our new project , a 72 car, has been standing for 35 years, undercover, but the window rubbers have perished and separated where they join together at the bottom and water has got in and rusted the front footwells from inside out. So when you sit in the car, the horizontal piece that your foot is on is full of very small holes. If you have a light under the car, and turn the main garage light off, its almost disco like with the light shining through the floor.
I therefore have to replace something. Can anyone advise as to which pieces I need to buy please. The centre of the floor looks OK, and the car itself is rust free, and has spent all its life in provence, so no rust problems except this. I see on the Fransoze catalogue all sorts of pieces available, as in other R4 parts catalogues, but which? Some are smooth, some have shapes pressed in, some have angled edges, some don't. Some are complete floors and others are tiny bits. So, has anyone got advice please. I will not be doing welding myself, so some one yet to be found will do it. I don't want to take off the torsion bars if I can help it. I would like to think that as all the surrounding is in great condition, that I could disc out the panels, leaving the last bit as an edge, that can carry a plate underneath, or support a dropped in floor plate, which a welder can fix. I am trying to understand what i am trying to do. Thanks all.
