The 'E' Type Forum

Hello.
I have a major problem which has stalled my restoration of a 1966 series 1, 4.2 OTS. The car was purchased some years ago as a project, the floors and sills had all but disintigrated. The front and rear of the car being loosely held together by the tunnel, no doors fitted so the car was a banana shape. We purchased a jig on which a concourse 4.2 FHC had been rebuilt and set about mounting the front and rear on said jig. We then bought a complete floor with inner sills already fitted and mounted this on the jig. So far so good all the holes mated up.(nothing has been welded as yet). We bought a pair of doors which are supposed to be from a series 1 4.2 OTS but they will not fit, being at least 3/8 of an inch to long.
So 12 months ago we walked out of the garage and closed the door and have tried since then to find some measurements which would allow us to carry on. We have a jaguar workshop manual but the measurements are of no use to us. Can anyone help with specific dimentions between fixed points on the front and rear bulkheads. door gaps etc. The jig may be wrong.(but i doubt it) The doors may be wrong but how do we tell, is there a difference between door lengths of certain ages or series.
Your help/suggestions/pointers would be much appreciated.
Regards Aston.

what measurements would you like? I havnt fitted the interior yet so I have access to the whole floor pan...

My car is a FHC but there cant be that many differences

The drivers door on my '66 FHC is 30-1/8" (768mm) along the flange at the lowest part of the door, and 22-1/4" (565mm) over the narrowest part at the top, just below the rubber window seal. These dimensions taken from the outer skin of the door.

Nick

Aston : ring Andy at Hutsons ( who probably made your floor etc ) 01274 669052 , who will almost certainly be able to give you the information you need

Thankyou all for your help,As was suggested I spoke to Andy at Hutson's. I thought that as the car had been jig built they would all have the same measurements between front and rear bulkheads, not so, and this must be why the Jaguar wokshop manual does not give this dimension.
Thanks once again.

Hello Aston,

Just out of curiosity; what was now the conclusion to the misfit? Was it the jig used or are the doors somehow too long? Some are extending, shorting doors, when they do not fit rather than going through the whole sill and floor job (again).
So it could also be, that the doors have been adjusted. But if not really high professionally done, you would see this.

My suggestion would be to visit a good roadster somewhere close to your home location and take the measures you need. Everything else does not make sense.

Best regards and good luck!

P.S.: I would do almost everything at a restoration including potentially the paint job but I would never connect bulkhead and rear if they once went out of alignment.

Stefan