Whats this empty space for please.

I felt around in my front trunk, and I don't have a hole there (it's carpeted).

My harness goes into the body through the same hole as the battery lead (OBTW... You need a grommet on that).

Anyway, maybe it got deleted? My car is 5357.

Good Luck.

Rocky

PS> The car looks great.

What is your vin? This is any early vin access opening.

Rocky, the grommet is just below the deck, I pushed it through to Paint the boot area.

The area was covered in a black felt like material which had seen better days, I have looked at some old pics I took but nothing of interest was shown just an empty hole.

It MUST have a reason to be there though.
Kirk my Vin is 3840, a July 1972 built Euro GTS
first sold in Turin Italy before going over to America.

Peter: Mine has the same opening, and once the felt lining was removed, the opening was covered by a piece of rubber.
My thought (pure speculation) is that the opening was designed to hold a gang plug and the two square holes on each side were part of the gang plug where fixed bolts would come through for nuts to be attached without spinning the bolts while tightening. The gang plug would be something similar to an electronic module or a bank of resistors. Again, pure speculation.
Related posts indicate the opening was not used by the factory.

...OFF TOPIC!

It's Nun of My Business...But Copper is NOT a Good Idea for Brake Lines! OK for the Clutch, But Not the Brakes, the Pressure could hit as high as 2000 PSI
If they are 'Copper Plated Steel', then disregard the Previous!
Just My Opinion, take it for what it's worth, Or Not.

That "quick disconnect" on your battery terminal? Get rid of it.

why remove the quick disconnect any reason ? I have a few of these fitted to various cars

I cannot see a problem with a negative earth disconnect.

Hotrod obviously does.

So please explain.

Its also a handy gizmo when you are welding on the car.

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Originally posted by Marlin Jack:
...OFF TOPIC!

It's Nun of My Business...But Copper is NOT a Good Idea for Brake Lines! OK for the Clutch, But Not the Brakes, the Pressure could hit as high as 2000 PSI
If they are 'Copper Plated Steel', then disregard the Previous!
Just My Opinion, take it for what it's worth, Or Not.

Approved by the ministry of transport here for over 40 years, It isn't pure copper but an alloy of some kind, I have never heard of a failure.

But your comments are noted.

Most likely copper/nickel brake line. High end European cars use it. Easy to bend and will not rust.

The benefits of a battery cut switch are obvious. The problem (I had to remove it on my Longchamp) is that it's simply a bad connection. I had starter problems when hot, since I removed the cut switch no problem at all. I've actually been looking for another cut switch of better design and quality, haven't found one, because in this day and age most people buy the cheapest they can find. So it's a race to the bottom for the manufacturers.

So if you have no starting issues, keep the switch, if you have it could be a bad ground due to the switch

It is copper/nickel we use, commonly called Cupra/Nickel brake pipe. Ease of shaping and bending the lines with the copper with added strength of the nickel. Used it on my cars for last 30 years without any issues some doing lots of track work.

Only bit of copper pipe I have on my car is the solid line from the clutch master, under the car to where it joins the flexible line to the clutch slave.