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Traveller Boot Cover
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 9:36 pm
by andygill
Hi
I saw a traveller last week that had a home made boot cover.
It looked like it was made from a roller blind and so was retractable.
It was very good and matched the interior (green, the same as mine)
Has anyone made anything similar.
Cheers
Andy
Re: Traveller Boot Cover
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 11:12 pm
by mike.perry
I'm sure that if a company were to produce them they would sell well
Re: Traveller Boot Cover
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 5:28 pm
by stanley0070
andygill wrote:Hi
I saw a traveller last week that had a home made boot cover.
It looked like it was made from a roller blind and so was retractable.
It was very good and matched the interior (green, the same as mine)
Has anyone made anything similar.
Cheers
Andy
Hi Andy,
You could make one like the one in the photo , I'm going to try this winter,
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Re: Traveller Boot Cover
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 5:46 pm
by MarkyB
Someone recommended one from a modern car that could be made to fit quite easily.
Can't remember what car now, a Renault of some sort I think.
Re: Traveller Boot Cover
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:42 pm
by Mike Shipman
Hi - I made a fold up cover for my old 58 traveller out of 4" tognue and groove, heres hoW:
- screw two small battens down the side of the waistrail to act like "shelf supports" (best to have them below the waistrail the width of the t+g so the finished boards are level with the top of the waistrail)
- get around 6 lengths of 4" pine tongue and groove long enough to span the car from side to side
- plane off the tongues
- cut them lengthways to sit across across the rear of the car, on the battens and flush with the waistrails
- place them from the rear seat back towards the rear doors (you can notch out a space if you have rear seat belts
- cut the final one widthways to fit up as close to the rear doors as possible
then the clever bit...
- get a couple of lengths of webbing, 20mm wide is plenty, remove the t+g slats from the back of the car in order, place them upside down and staple the webbing at 90 degrees to the slats (a few inches from each end) joining them all together
- turn them back over and put back in place and varnish / colour as yoiu wish (mine turned out to be very close in colur to the ash frame)
You can then "concertina" the t+g slats up from the rear doors to the seat in order to get access to the load area. It worked a treat and is a mod that I will get around to on Benny when time allows.
Sorry I haveny got any pictures, I realise that a wordy description is not always easy to conceptualise.
Cheers, Mike.