Rumble seat and Trunk Area

We recently riveted both rectangular rumble seat hinge spacers to the trunk rumble seat triangular gussets.

 Clamping the rumble seat hinge spacers in place and then setting the rivets.

 And of course the completed re-rivited rumble seat hinge spacer in place.

Here is an excellent photo of an original roadster with the spacer in place behind the rumble seat hinge pivot.

We also re-riveted both inner trunk braces at the underside of the panel above the deck lid.

The completed upper trunk brace primed and almost ready for paint. I should point out that I bought the original style factory rivets, which are still available from Roy Nacewicz at Ford Bolts.

Both inner trunk braces re-riveted to the trunk floor pan.

With the riveting complete we then sprayed the inside of the rumble seat area with Dupont DTM Epoxy primer.

 We reinstalled the rumble lid to recheck the fit with both rumble seat hinge spacers in place and installed the rumble seat water dam to the rumble seat floor pan.

Here is a better photo of the rumble seat water dam installed to the rumble seat floor pan.

 A different perspective – looking from the inside of the car with the rumble lid closed.

Once we were satisfied with the fit of the rumble lid the outside of the rear body was primed.

 I’m now very happy with the all around fit of the rumble lid in the trunk opening the gaps are all very uniform.

 Well at least the back half of the ’34 is almost complete.