At this point I realised that the boot lid hinges were getting in the way and quite frankly looked ugly. As I'd done away with the huge spring mechanism that holds it open I could cut away half of it and drill/rivnut some extra mountings further in.
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Rear cross mounting points welded in...
The hinges could then be trimmed to match.
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The next parts were the bars that run above the windows from the back to the front of the car. Normally this would continue straight down to the chassis rails at the front of the car but my bulkhead already had seamless tubing uprights in place so I needed a really strong way to connect to it. With some very careful machining I made some plugs that were a very tight fit in the tube (hammer tight!). I machined them with a 5mm shoulder in the centre that stood up for exactly half the thickness of the wall of the tubing, this would give me a good channel to fill with weld. I also drilled the tubes to plug weld the inserts into place just to make sure.
Continued In Part 3...
