Note the original Colorado Red paint.  After 5 years at Cal (the University of California ,Berkeley), I have learned to hate red (Stanford's color), and later Harvards Crimson versus my Yale Blue. So I needed to paint out the last remnants of red.
New floor pans welded in. The metal was like swiss cheese before, and I had glued old coke cans over it to keep the inside carpet dry. It worked, but would have cost me a few points at the Concours, therefore it had to go. I was not particularly pleased with the welding job. What you see here is the welder's black spray paint and around the edges is a sealant he put in. I bought new pans which were cut to go from the lower cross member (just in front of the seat) and up to above the pedals, behind the pedal box. To do it right, I would have had to remove the piece all the way and have the new one installed way up to the firewall. Instead, I chose to cut the replacement piece down (as shown), and it was patched over the old floor pan. This won't be a concours car, and to do it right would have required more of a tear down than I am willing to undertake at this point.
The passenger side was just as bad, so in went another floor pan. The bad paint was scraped out and prepped for primer.
Metal prepped with acid wash and ready for primer
First coat of primer!
Oops! While I am in there, I might as well keep tearing it down. New dash, rebuild the heater box, where will it end? See the next section (from the Healey main menu) for details on the dash rebuilding. Click on the picture for a larger shot. Hit the return button on your browser to go back.

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