Hey All,

I have some questions regarding replacing the trunk floor in my 68 coupe. I see now they have a "complete" trunk floor that includes the shock mount area, which is my main problem. The rest of the trunk is in pretty bad shape as well so I thought I would just replace the entire thing and bolt up a new gas tank while I was there. My question is should I cut the existing floor out leaving about 1/2" "lip" of old material to weld to or should I cut pretty close to full dimensions and butt weld. I'm not a very seasoned welder, but I can weld. The trunk I figure I could do since it gets covered up with the mat and undercoated, but I'm worried a little about fitment of the new one. the other thing is the car needs both quarters and inner/outer fenderwells, tailpan inner valance and outer skin as well as a deck lid. Should I replace all at once? Can I piece things together one section at a time? How would a body shop go about this? Thanks in advance, this site is great! Sooo much info, good info at that!

I have not done this before so I can't tell you which way is the right way, but my 68 had the trunk floor replaced. They left a whole lot more then a 1/2 inch lip of the old floor and it looks like crap from underneath. Will have to see what the other guys on here recommend...

Since your trunk pan is bad as well as the shock towers, I would definately recomend the full one piece trunk floor. With the trunk floor you would not have to piece it in, it should be spot welded in where the factory would have resistance welded (factory spot weleded) it together. The seam overlaps the front floor end. I recomend changing one piece at a time so that you can see how the new pieces fit up with the originals. You are definately going to have to remove either the quaters or the tail panel first before you set the trunk pan in place, yet don't remove all at once. Keep your trunk lid in place as well, so that you can keep an eye on the runk lid gaps while you are changing the tail panel and quarters. If you are changing the trunk lid, get your replacement now so that you can set your new panels with the piece you are going to end up with.

Thanks for the info guys. I think i will go with the full one-piece floor since I need to perform as little welding as possible. I'll try to post some pics of the current condition for a little "visual" assesment.