I agree. When I tore down my 1936 PB, the fume shield at the base of the
firewall was attached with something approaching pop rivets. It was pretty
obvious that they had been there from the beginning.
Cheers,
Lew Palmer
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mg-t@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mg-t@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of Scott Allen
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 9:27 AM
To: mg-t@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: running board trim attachment
Invented in Scotland prior to WWI. See
http://www.assemblymag.com/CDA/ArticleInformation/features/BNP__Features__It
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m/0,6493,100045,00.html
On 2/23/06, TATERRY@aol.com <TATERRY@aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 2/23/2006 4:46:03 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> sallen6363@gmail.com writes:
>
>
> Yeah, not too long ago I saw a TA barn find being stripped down and there
>
> were rivets under the strips.
>
>
>
> TA's would have used screws. Pop rivets had not been invented at that
> time nor phillips head/posi screws. Someone had taken the easy way when
> replacing the strips along the way. Of course with things MG, anything is
> possible.
> terry
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