1959 Standard Ten Companion

Areas around the rear door catches had been plated over, I was able to repair these without disturbing the captive nuts.

Other side with template, there is lead here.

The rear wing flanges & the wheel tubs to which they are bolted had rotted away long ago, a previous repairer had repaired the off side tub & remade the near side tub, unfortunately instead of remaking the tub to wing profile they simply tacked the tubs about 10mm above the wing edge then tack welded the wings back on. After some thought I shall be retaining the vertical part of the near side repair.

Oh when will it stop raining?

Repair sections were made using a good wing to achieve the correct curvature, without having a stretcher I used a cross pein hammer.

I made repairs in short sections with original metal left in between so that I had some thing to line up with, I will then go back & replace these using the new metal to align with.

New section made & bottom edge that goes behind bumper repaired, as can be seen it was necessary to remove part of the light mounting area to repair the previous attempt.

There is a panel above the spare wheel well that forms the rear part of the load area floor, I had hoped that I would be able to repair the rear corners of the body by only removing the ends of this panel however the rot was more extensive & I had to remove the whole panel then reattach the ends.

The rear corners.