24th November 2004

Finally got around to taking some pics of my modified bootbox, that I actually did already in July, but hadn't documented. The reason I did this is because I couldn't get the bootbox in there with the rollbar in place (I knew this all along) and the alternatives are:

1) Remove the rollbar everytime the bootbox goes out - not an option!!

2) Make completely new smaller bootbox - a LOT of extra work and it would become much smaller, reducing badly needed stowage space, and

3) Modify it somehow - which is what I did.

Here are pics of it being removed.


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1. The bootbox mounted and in place.

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2. Left side showing section and screws. Look closely and you'll see that the left side of the cut is rivets, and the other are screws. That's so I can easily take it apart and put it together.

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3. Right section.

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4. Right rollbar cutout. It is fairly close to the bar, and many trials meant I scratched the bar quite a bit. Easy to fill in with some new paint.

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5. Same cutout, showing the top portion.

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6. The full bootbox, but now with screws removed, lying in the left part of the box. The whole middle section is now removable.

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7. With middle section removed. The screws use rivnuts in the aluminium strip to attach the middle section with.

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8. Right section is at this point, loose, so it can just be pulled out.

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9. The whole bootbox in three sections now out of the car, a whole 5 mins after we started working to remove it. Not too much work.