DOOR GUARD

That's what I call it. It's that little rod that is nailed to the body by the leading edge of the door to keep rain out. I guess it helps?? On the near side it had been replaced with the wrong size rod and was broken. The diameter should be 7/32" which is not available at any of the local sources so I ordered one in. Removing the one on the off side, for body painting, I see that it is not just a straight hole (1/16"). There is a small counter bore for the nail head to sit flush. Small detail but important, I think.

WIRING

After cutting out the body section I found this bit of cloth cover wire. I can only think this has to be an original wire that fell between the bottom sill plate and the body metal. I have read, on the forum, that the F Types didn't have cloth covered wire but there is some dispute to this claim. I'll look further into that. The wire color code chart I have says the tail light wire is yellow/blue. The car was re-wired at some point and what a disaster it was.

BODY WORK 3

With more stripping, sand blasting and sanding I'm making progress with the body work. Today I cut out the worst of the sheetmetal along the lower left side of the barrel back. This side must have been outside the shed roof when the car was taken off the road and stored. The right side looks fine. Photo 2 shows the removed piece.

Here is the bonnet. I still have to hand sand around the louvers to finish up. The wings cleaned up nicely and I suspect at least one of them is new. One has a headlamp hole in it but the other does not. The photos I have that were taken prior to disassembly show the lights mounted on the front cross member.