Wiggo Posted May 16, 2018 Report Share Posted May 16, 2018 Just for curiosity, really, but while stripping the interior ready for the new (old) seats, I found this delightful piece of floor pan: Is the floor of a P11/P12 supposed to look like this under the driver's seat (and the passenger's seat) or has someone really welded half a jerry can in as a repair? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDoctor Posted May 16, 2018 Report Share Posted May 16, 2018 (edited) Wiggo, In answer to your question: 1) No, it’s not supposed to look like that; and 2) Yes, it’s most likely a portion of an old “jerry can” used as convenient patching material. This is just me—I’d leave it alone, because it’s so unique. But, again, that’s just me . . . Best regards . . . Edited May 16, 2018 by DrDoctor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggo Posted May 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2018 Well, I thought it was at first, then I looked at some, and the "standard" pattern ones you see most of the time are different: However, a bit more digging turned up this pattern, which seems to be WW2 US issue, so maybe it was a very early floor repair after all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Ed Posted May 16, 2018 Report Share Posted May 16, 2018 You can just see in my 48 plymouth an X under the front seat on both sides. I believe what you have it standard mopar floor reinforcement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plymouthy Adams Posted May 16, 2018 Report Share Posted May 16, 2018 does your floor have signs of a patch being welded into this area...while Ed is correct that the floor is cross hatched for reinforcement purposes, the X he shows has a greater distance between the tips of the X compared to your panel. I will not rule out the illusions often created by a photograph. If welded patch, then yes, the repairmen was pretty keen with the eye to selected the proper OTS commodity for the repair. Now the question is this....what does the other half of the floor pan look like in comparison? Similar size and shape X here also or is it a later repair with no cross hatches or beads present. We only seeing half of what you have, or should I say, should have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggo Posted May 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2018 Aye, the passenger side is nearly identical, but slightly higher, and the floorpan has more patches than a pirate's convention. I'm not even sure the transmission tunnel is original. If you look in the first photo, there's a nasty shiny patch piece at the top left of the 'jerry can' that isn't even tacked down properly, and another light coloured patch on top of the trans tunnel at the left of the picture, under the parking brake cable, just left of the two bolts sticking up. There's also a bracket on top of the tunnel, dead centre of the photo that is an original part of the tunnel, which leads me to believe the floorpan from the A pillars back is made out of whatever was lying around. Can anyone confirm if the floor is a single skin? I have areas where it seems to be double skinned, too. To be honest, I'm now scared to go looking underneath! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plymouthy Adams Posted May 16, 2018 Report Share Posted May 16, 2018 well, you can always claim it is such AS there are two sides to a jerry can..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDoctor Posted May 16, 2018 Report Share Posted May 16, 2018 Wiggo, No need to be afraid, my friend. I had a ’56 Chevy convertible (back when it was just another “old car”, and not a gold-mine as they are today), and I used real estate for-sale signs as flooring material. I just put them in from the interior, pop-riveted them down, and put roof tar underneath the car over the “patches”. It was extremely solid, and no one could tell it’d been patched, especially after the car had been driven abit, since the dirt and road-crud stuck to the bottom. I drove that car for many, many years. It was the car I owned when my wife and I got married 48 years ago!!! That car was a patch-work of patches, but it was solid, looked great, and we both loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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