[TR] Hole question

[Steve Ball]

OK...here's one for the list:

Last night I was at the body shop where I'm having some restoration work 
done on my -3A, TS68164L.
The rear fenders are off, and I looked under the rear body, on the very 
bottom of the car, just inside (toward the centerline) from  the back of the 
rear fenderwell....and maybe two or three inches in front of the very back 
of the car.  I found a hole on each side of the car.....maybe 1/4"-3/8" or 
larger in diameter.  The holes don't seem to go anywhere except they 
disappear up into the bodywork, and they're in the wrong place to be the 
boot lid drain tubes (I think those come out to the side and there is no 
path for them to go straight down through the bodywork and come out on the 
bottom of the car).  I'm stumped.....I can't figure out what they are for. 
Are they drain tube holes from the spare tire area (although there are no 
holes in my spare tire area itself), or from the inside of the boot floor, 
or could they be some kind of body alignment jig holes from the factory?  I 
have no clue.  Does anybody know what these holes are for?  What am I 
missing?  If there's supposed to be something going in there, now is the 
time for me to install whatever is missing!

Maybe they're just air vent holes to keep the inside of the fender and 
bodywork from rusting in case water accumulates in there from rain or 
whatever?


Thanks,

Steve Ball
Lompoc CA
email: banjonut at verizon.net