14th. I attack the 2 clamps attaching the chassis to the rear bearer, and clean up part of the bearer itself.

It takes me all afternoon to clean up 2 clamps!

15th. Having cleaned the end-bearer thoroughly I give it 2 coats of red-oxide. Great stuff, (except when it gets on your hands).

Am now wondering whether to remove the boot floor to clean up the last bit of chassis...

16th. Having found a promising supplier of steel, I remove the steel sheet from bay 6.

More haste, less speed...

16th. Movement can be seen at the bearer clamps.

17th. A surprise awaited me when I removed the floorboards from the boot. What is that nasty-looking bent tubing linking the chassis members?

17th. The wood supporting the boot floor is riddled with woodworm and definitely time-expired. It will be easily replaced.

17th. Half of the rear chassis cleaned up and silvered.

27th. The boot chassis after its second coat of silver paint.

29th. After half a bank-holiday spent scraping flaking paint off virtually unreachable areas of the chassis, I decided to try something different, and took the centre back panel off.

Not that it came away without a struggle!

29th. I am now getting a better idea of what needs to be done to attach the boot doors. The vertical angles and horizontal angle obviously need to be replaced.