Strange Dimensions

[Peter Coomaraswamy]

I am helping a friend with his 1970 2800 CS (hold back your comments Don) and I laid the trunk carpet from my 74 3.0 into the 1970 2800 and it was too small meaning there was about 1 1/2 inches of elephant skin showing on both sides near the wheel wells and really all the way around. When I brought the carpet home and put it in my 74 it fit perfectly. The elephant skin-covered wood pieces (original) on the 1970 fit perfect so I'm wondering if there were changes in the wheel well dimensions over the years?? For some reason I thought the shells were identical over the years-

Enlightenment most welcome!

 

[vince]

I'm just guessing here but the '74 cars have side 'sills' in their trunks. I have no idea what they are for (storage??) but I've only seen them on '74 e9s.

 

[alanmcg]

bumper bracing

the frame structure in the rear of the 74 was beefed up substantially to accommodate the stronger (and hideous) rear bumper.

 

[Stefan]

Hmm, had no idea about these differences in the dimensions.
Let's see some measurements with good reference points from you out there just to clarify the difference.