scott suhring wrote:
>
> The Romagni's wrote:
> >
> > Hi all - I'm considering replacing the dashboard in my 1974 TR6.
> > Refurbishing is out as it's all chopped up. I was looking at TRF as they
> > have a sale going on. I also called Prestige Autowood in California. I
> > found them in Hemmings. Does anyone on the list have experience with
> > either dash and if so, what were those experiences. I'm trying to get as
> > close to original as possible.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Marty Romagni
> > 1974 TR6
>
> Marty:
>
> Word of caution regarding TRF and Moss TR6 dashes. Their dealer, which
> is
> the same, uses American walnut as the veneer. The original dashes used
> French Walnut. The difference is in the color. The American is a much
> darker
> color and looks nothing like the original French, which is a much
> lighter, almost
> orangish look.
>
> I spoke to a vendor at Hershey's Antique Auto show who specializes in
> dashes for
> British cars and he indicated that the French no longer allow the export
> of
> their walnut. I told him that I special ordered from TRF a teak dash and
> he felt
> this would be a much closer match to the original dash on my '70 TR6. As
> usual, the
> dash is back ordered with their (TRF) regular dash order, but was
> recently told/
> guessed that it should be in any time now!
>
> Scott Suhring
> Elizabethtown, PA
> '70 TR6
I hope you have better luck with your TFR backorders than I have had.
My Upholstery items were backordered for over 8 months before I gave up
and ordered elsewhere.
I think TRF has only one answer to backorder status. "It is on the way
from our vendor and should be in any day now". If it's in stock, it
will be there straight away. If it has to ve back ordered, God only
knows how long it will take. I think many items are only produced when
the vendors have sufficient quantity of orders to make another
production run. That is not the fault of TRF, but I wish they would be
more revealing about the real status of orders.
Joe Curry '63 Spit
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