Just wondering if anyone else has had occassion to pull the deck panel around the fluid reservoirs and peek underneath. I was anxious to get my car out for its first drive of the season and decided I had better do the windscreen wiper transmission upgrade first. (That may well be a candidate for its own thread.) Anyway, the procedure entails removal of the deck panel and dropping the fluid bottles in order to access the wiper motor and cable conduit. What I found was troubling. The reservoirs are the traditional, old school Girling metal cans, which I suspected, but their attachment was the problem. They are simply hose clamped to a sheet metal clip angle that's in turn fastened to the deck plate and then "weather sealed" with a wishful bead of rtv. The real world performance of the assembly is that removing the caps to top off fluid breaks the integrity of the "seal" in short order. In my case a combo of rain water and brake fluid had found its way past the "seal", eaten off the finish of the top of both cans and started some fairly aggressive corrosion. If this is the way the original cars were configured, I would think it is one area that could benefit from some more modern thinking. For the life of me I cannot understand why, since the reservoirs are hidden, Jimmy Price's guys didn't use plastic bottles. I can't bring myself to put this thing back together in this fashion. At the very least I'm contemplating fabricating some type of rack for the cans that is independent of the deck piece in order to make service more managable. Of course, that would further delay driving the darn car. I was just wondering, since mine is a very early car, if you guys with later cars have anything different going on.