Continuing with the bodywork I started to tackle the rear tub. It was very dinged up, very flakey, and quite corroded in areas.

I didn’t want to disassemble the entire thing as I didn’t want to rivet it back together and I couldn’t spot-weld it. I decided to knock out a few of the bad dents and replace just the floor and steel cross members. I started by steam cleaning it and degreasing it as it was very oily underneath. It was too huge to use paint thinners on so I resorted to the sander for removing most of the paint and oxidisation.

Then painted the entire thing in grey primer and 2 part top coat.