05-01-2018, 10:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-01-2018, 10:59 AM by Ruairidh Dunford.)
I am not near my own CC body but have sketched the differences below.
The circular (steel) wing bracket brace has a slot in it which allows it to be fitted over the rearmost bulkhead.
The body is an early one manufactured in the 1980s and came with a further pressed bracing piece shown in the sketch.
My car has full touring wings and was used for a number of long distance trips in my youth (we drove nearly 6k miles in under a month on one such holiday) - we carried camping equipment on the running boards and in the tail and this caused the body to break up. I fitted large aluminium strengthening plates either side of the tail (inside and out) and also up near the windscreen supports where damage was appearing.
I am sure this damage was down to abuse rather than any fault in the design. The repair looks akin to a 1950s aircraft repair.
You can see the repair plates on the photos I have to hand...
The circular (steel) wing bracket brace has a slot in it which allows it to be fitted over the rearmost bulkhead.
The body is an early one manufactured in the 1980s and came with a further pressed bracing piece shown in the sketch.
My car has full touring wings and was used for a number of long distance trips in my youth (we drove nearly 6k miles in under a month on one such holiday) - we carried camping equipment on the running boards and in the tail and this caused the body to break up. I fitted large aluminium strengthening plates either side of the tail (inside and out) and also up near the windscreen supports where damage was appearing.
I am sure this damage was down to abuse rather than any fault in the design. The repair looks akin to a 1950s aircraft repair.
You can see the repair plates on the photos I have to hand...