Thread: Skirt Panels on 1 Ton Tray

If you are restoring the vehicle to rivet counter specifications, that's fine.
But aside from looking hideous, these modesty panels as Rover call them serve no other purpose than to trap mud, horse poo and other corrosive substances against the side of the fuel tank, and make hosing down the chassis after a wet offroad trip even more difficult.
Bill.

There are wide ones and narrow ones, with no definite changeover date apparently. They are made of alloy, and attach to the body, not the chassis. My 2a, being ex-army, does not have them, and I have never felt a need to have them. Several of my spare vehicles have bits and pieces, but none in good condition or complete. As you say, they get mangles and discarded.

I would have thought you would find some at one of the specialist wreckers though.

John

I've always gone for originality but now I've decided to use the resources instead on some kick-ass chunky new tyres so the lack of modesty panels will "look the part" along with the Queen Mother of PTO winches plus some new bitumen melting Hella Rallye 2000 driving lights I've had in the shed for 2 decades. (I thought they'd come in handy some day!)

*In case ppl are wondering WTF I'm doing up at this hr Xmas day, I have to put the turkey in the oven, the pork in the BBQ and make a Tiramisu cake.*

If you do actually have a 1 Ton (Chassis number prefix 229), the skirts were always the narrow ones.

If you have any other 109 with a chassis prefix 253 or anything other than 229, then the skirts may be narrow or wide.

What we are calling "skirts" or "modesty panels" are, if I'm interpreting correctly, the sill panels. They are mounted on brackets attached to the sill channel which runs from the firewall to a bracket attaching it to the rear body.

They are also missing from my '59 88". If anybody could provide an accurate measurement of the depth (7" is normally quoted for the deep version, but I don't know if that's an approximation) and the radius of the curve at the ends, I would be most grateful! The narrow version seems to be available from some UK suppliers, but the deep version is long gone......

The ones I have are 5" deep

I have no idea how I would calculate the radius - but that is possibly a result of Gin ingestion.

5 inches? I'd been told that they were 7 inches on the Series II, and 4 inches on the later IIA's. Good job I asked!

Is the curve constant from the top front corner to the base, or does it return to a straight section on the front (vertical) edge? If you (or anyone) could post a photo of the curved section with a ruler on it, I can work out the scale and figure out the radius myself!!

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From above the rear hanger of the nearside leaf spring.