We have put a lot of time and effort into this 38 Plymouth.  The whole rear lower panel and floor right through to under the seat has been completely hand fabricated and replaced.  The front and rear mud guards have been widened and the shape reworked for cleaner lines, the guard edge now follows the wheel's shape and shall feature a straight edge running board.to clean up those ugly Plymouth bits but still retain some typically Plymouth features like the swage lines. We have basically just fattened it up and made it more curvey.

With the rear floor done and the back seat panel finished it was time to roll up a new rear tail pan on the 38 Plymouth.  It certainly was not easy, a complex compound curve with a dead flat bottom and a double swage line through it and a pair of exhaust slots.  It has come up well though.

The 38 Plymouth has a Jag diff and aftermarket 32 Ford fuel tank so the old rusty floor had been removed.  To give the floor some strength I went with deep ribs because there was no frame under the floor and not room for a frame between the chassis mounted fuel tank and the floor.  The step down at the back drops down to line up with the bottom of the rear sill panel to box it in and make it resistant to body flex once its all welded in.  This was all formed in one piece, how ever to install it the rear sill panel was cut out, it was all rusted through anyway and required a custom formed piece too.

The Australian models of the 38 Plymouth [and dodge] had the wipers down on the bottom of the windscreen and service parts just dont exist, not to mention they are fairly flimsy anyway and well worn and rusted by now.  The solution was to fit this electric wiper kit from New Port Engineering to the top of the windscreen like they were on the US models.  However the Aussie body has some differences in the top of the windscreen that mean the holes have to sit higher for the meachanism to clear on the inside, so you can't use their template supplied otherwise you end up wiith holes that you need to fill again. Apart from that these New Port Engineering wiper kits are very well made and the new wiper arms look the ducks nuts.