The Ute doesn't have any rust, but sometime after Lee sold the car, a subsequent owner installed a Brand X engine and transmission in the usual manner done in the 50's and early 60's...that is rather crude. The floor was hacked to install a floor shifter and a mickey mouse hydraulic clutch set up. These holes had to be patched. We chose to clean up the existing holes and the metal around them and surface weld patches. They won't show when the carpet is installed, and we'll use seam sealer underneath to prevent water from getting to the sandwich and to make them nearly invisible to someone under the car.
Here's the patch for the hydraulic clutch access hole...
Here's the one for the floor shifter. You can also see a patch fabricated for the original access hole for the auto trans dip stick. The big new hole is access to install the Jeep floor shifter to the Stude OD trans. Also visible is the fabricated block off plate for the underseat heater (real hot rods don't have heaters [8D]...
Here's a patch for another random hole cut on the driver's side. No idea why it was cut...
The firewall, on the other hand, did not have any non stock holes punched in it. We ended up filling a lot of un needed stock holes in both the fire wall and the inner fenders...
You can see the number filled on the driver's side in this shot from the cabin...
Dick Steinkamp
Bellingham, WA
Here's the patch for the hydraulic clutch access hole...
Here's the one for the floor shifter. You can also see a patch fabricated for the original access hole for the auto trans dip stick. The big new hole is access to install the Jeep floor shifter to the Stude OD trans. Also visible is the fabricated block off plate for the underseat heater (real hot rods don't have heaters [8D]...
Here's a patch for another random hole cut on the driver's side. No idea why it was cut...
The firewall, on the other hand, did not have any non stock holes punched in it. We ended up filling a lot of un needed stock holes in both the fire wall and the inner fenders...
You can see the number filled on the driver's side in this shot from the cabin...
Dick Steinkamp
Bellingham, WA
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