From: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
>When his outer sills disappeared, he replaced them with #2 pine
>screwed and bolted to the inner sill. Not even pressure-treated.
>
>I discovered I could close the doors rather easily when I got out, but
>they tended to jam when I got in. I wasn't tempted to try the car on the
>road.
I was poking around one of the british car shops near here, when I saw a
TR7 that looked pretty good from far. I went to have a closer look. The
sill had an odd texture, like a really bad fill job, so were the sills
rusty and filled just enough to get the paint on? There's an understatement,
and the other side of the car told all. On the floor of the shop was a
curious sculpture made of a row of 2 litre coke bottles laid end to end, a
sheet of cardboard, a lot of duct tape and several pounds of bondo. The car
had almost no sills to speak of! Good thing it was a coupe....
Jody
jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca - Toronto - '80 TR7, good sills, bad paint
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