detailed body picture request

eriknetherlands

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ahum, not sure how to avoid the dirty minds here...

Keeping focused on E9's: I've opened up some cracks in the paint in the area surrounding the rear tail lights. When doing so, I noticed that the joint where the side (quarter) panel meets the rear (license plate) panel is different if I compare left to right on my car. Above the floor , my left side has a butt seam (see attached picture), my right side has a strip welded over the seam. I am thinking that neither are OEM.
Under the trunk floor both left and right quarterpanels are spotwelded to the taillight panel with a double flange. That does seem like a logical OEM construction.

The other images show why i'm seriously considering to replace the whole rear panel + rear left valances.

Can anyone share a pic of the OEM seam from inside the trunk?
Can anyone share a pic of the OEM seam from the underside of the spare wheel well & tank side?
 

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From what I gathered, the entire floor has a stamped lip on it, which is spot welded to the rear panel. I can dig up some trunk pics but here is my car on the outside, while I was drilling out the spots. I beleive that the gold faces up. I ultimately abandoned the rear tail. It wasn’t in good shape.

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Erik - here are a few photos. The joint above the trunk floor is butt welded. The joint below the floor are two 90° flanges spot welded to each other. You see the joint on the finished car (below the floor)
 

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