Nova Progress

I finished the floors in the Nova convertible. The customer supplied a complete floor for a 2 door sedan, and the convertible floor was a lot different. I had to remove fopur sections of the floor one at a time and then cut patches from the supplied floor pans. It was a time consuming job, about 30 hours all told. There was a lot of extra bracing on the convertible floor and I had a few details like the emergency brake cable guide and gas pedal mounting which had to be made. Here's what it all looked like.

This is the floor after I removed the seat and the carpet. There's significant rust in each of the four floor sections. Also, note the shape of this floor versus the pans in the next picture.

These are the eproduction floor pans for a two door sedan. The whole outer boxed section is not present.

I started by marking a cut line that made sense in terms of the bracing underneath, and getting to solid metal.

After the floor section was cut out I clamped it in place on the reproduction floor pan, then cut it out with a cutoff disc.

After a lot of fitting and trimming, followed by welding and sanding...here it is!

The front passenfer foot well was next, notice the bracing with the section removed.

The pattern clamped inplace to the floor pan. Notice the forty some odd spot welds I had to drill out. Nice!

And here's that section welding in place. Nice work!

This is the driver's side foot well after replacement.

The driver's side rear footwell was the worst, here it is marked and ready for cutting.

Done and done. Ship it!