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Re: FW: TR-3A dash recovering and metal clips

To: Jim Bauder <jimbpps@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: FW: TR-3A dash recovering and metal clips
From: erl@unix.mail.virginia.edu
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:15:47 -0500 (EST)
Cc: "Musson, Carl" <musson@chekhov.arts.usf.edu>, TR List <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Mmdf-warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at mail.virginia.edu

These clips are not in the catalog because they are not original.  If you
found them there, it is because someone had already recovered the dash.
The original dash used a "fused" vinyl coat, without a cloth backing.  It
was fused, not really glued, to the dash.


 On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Jim Bauder wrote:

> 
> Carl,
> 
> I've never seen them in any of the catalogs either. My car had about
> 10 or 12 spaced along the lower edge of the dash. They are a half
> circle about 1/2 of a dime size, I'd say and at the straight edge of
> the 1/2 they have maybe a 1/16 or perhaps 1/32 of an inch between the
> two halves, enough to fit two layers of vinyl and the thickness of the
> dash sheet metal. I would have liked to have a couple more of them
> myself.
> 
> Good luck
> 
> Jim Bauder
> '58 TR3
> Palo Alto, CA
> 
> 
> 
> 

James A. Ruffner


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