‘69 traveller rear corner brackets

[HARBER07]

Hi everyone,

New here. We’ve taken on a very ambitious traveller restoration and have hit an unusual roadblock in the form of the rear corner brackets. Will post up our project in time but for now it would be great to get some help on this problem.

Out corner brackets have been cut and repaired in the past and we’re replacing them with brand new full brackets from ESM. However the new brackets are dimensionally very different to our existing repaired ones by about 3/4”.

It’s not unusual for pattern parts to not fit very well, but this seems to be a long way off and raises the question on which is correct.

Does anyone have some measurements from the bottom of the rear brackets to the bottom of the bar that supports the rear floating floor?.


Any help much appreciated,

Thanks,
Tom

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[Jim McCrae]

This is difficult to measure once everything is installed in the car but I measured 11 inches exactly from the bottom of bracket to the TOP of the floor. This seems to match the measurement on your photograpgh.

[HARBER07]

Thankyou for your time investigating this.

It would make sense, the original floor, or what was left of it, looked to sit right and matched with the tabs on the rear arches.

I would wager then the best way forward with the replacement brackets is to fettle them to accommodate the rear lights, and weld it off centre to bring the floor line back to what it is now.