Both OCC's had been cut through at some point presumably because the brakes were seized. You can see the stub of the o/s one in the picture of the sill remains above.
I still have the old ones (I think) & I have thought about getting them repaired but local engineering shops think it would be very difficult to make them strong & balanced. The fact that you don't see them makes them less of an issue, but I know one is not correct...
Presumably it was easier and quicker to cut through the shafts than to take out the 4 outer pad retaining bolts and knock the outer pad out from beween the disc and the caliper.... Knocking the pads out on seized brakes must have taken me all of a couple of minutes to do the last time I did it, and those brakes were seized solid.
Great pics
Try contacting a propshaft company such as Bailey Morris regarding repairing the shafts. It would be bread and butter work for them.
PhilI may well give them a ring, thanks
Some "easy option" if you ask me......
Dunlops though.. four calipers, rather than the two on girlings. Little more complex?
Another thing I've wondered about on OCC is whether its boot lock is the wrong way up, or if early cars were all like it?
It's the only one I can remember this way up!