After the trauma of shuffling the engine out on my Willy 1 which doesn't have a removeable slam panel (did this only come in with phase 2 cars due to it being absolute pain to get the engine out otherwise?) I'm tempted to modify the the front of mine to accept a removeable panel. My dilemma is that it's a low mileage car which I want to keep original as possible however I don't want to scrape the paint of my engine bay when the time comes to get the damn thing in again. Or, I'm sure I read on a thread somewhere that the engine and gearbox can be put in from the bottom up so I may see if that's a better option...

What would you guys/girls do in this situation?