John, boss man was concerned about not using the front floor pans we bought and epoxied one side of. I needed to fab the current ones in order to line up pan beads more sensibly in relation to the fabbed floor frame. Pans I made are flat anyhow. So this is the bought front floor pans being repurposed. On the '59 Pontiac job.
I had attempted revisions to those pans and had cut them. Just so on purposely happend that I had trimmed them to an appropriate size for this spot. If you recall, I had recently notched my wacky triangulated rear floor frame crossmember for driveshaft clearance insurance and plan to make something like the piece at the flared front of the tunnel, for the rear. So I did this area first and that back end piece for the tunnel will cap it off and flow visually.
The big 16 ga hot roll sheet does stay and will have some sort of pass through and or storage and or component compartments worked in. I have an IDJ style idea that nobody can stop me from doing, for that.
Off to the sides of the floor frame ahead of tubs, I am debating whether to just pan across the top of what I have or to create li'l wells (about battery sized, hmm) there that hang down even with the footwells. With tiny cute little beads on em maybe.
The toilet seat looking piece goes over the pan at the rear plug weld flange, and under at the curved sides. Gently tipped with ewheel then bead roller like I like to do lately, then hammer formed over a 15" Pontiac wheel. I figured that choice of overlapping was more tasteful than trying to hammer pan beads flat where they meet the back seat hump. This way they just tuck under the hump flange. This will be a tough area to see even if mirrors, and I am trying to give the interior wizard Oz a sporting chance at a usable back seat. I would want rear seat belts so I may ask if they do.
You asked for it, bub. Thanks and hit em easy. I don't know if anybody caught either of my attempts at word crafting on this thread recently, but I think you might have "got" one. I reach pretty far for a yuk sometimes.
I shall continue on, from the wall back ASAP!