- 1. Hardtop Resto - expensive seals? (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carruthers" <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 22:11:47 +0100
- I can't remember who it was who said that they'd restored their hardtop - but they said that they should have just tried to find a secondhand one because it was so expensive for all the seals. Mike p
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- 2. Re: Hardtop Resto - expensive seals? (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 23:34:38 +0100
- James, Yes, it was me. Here's what I ordered from Rimmers (taken from my "Spitfire Diary" webpage): HARD-TOP RESTORATION 726544PW White Headlining = #57.85 630961 Front Main Seal = #12.87 (Finally de
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- 3. RE: Hardtop Resto - expensive seals? (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:24:47 +0100
- I guess how much you spend on your hard-top resto depends on exactly what you want at the end. If your current headliner is OK (or you just don't care that much - mine is pretty stained!) that's 60 q
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00153.html (9,350 bytes)
- 4. Re: Hardtop Resto - expensive seals? (score: 1)
- Author: "T. .R. Dafforn" <td214@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 08:43:25 +0000
- Got my whole car resprayed for only 550 quid. Is your hard top for an estate? Cheers Tim -- Tim Dafforn University of Cambridge Structural Medicine Unit Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Hill
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- 5. Re: Hardtop Resto - expensive seals? (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:19:14 +0100
- <g> Now there's a conversion that I really don't want to see! Respraying is one of those things that the experts bamboozle the innocent car-owner about. One is told that "cheap" resprays are a waste
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00158.html (9,211 bytes)
- 6. Re: Hardtop Resto - expensive seals? (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:27:31 +0100
- The point is, of course, that you can get a brand new one for half the price (and, probably, sell the old one to some mug like me for a hundred pounds or so, thus bringing your nett cost down to well
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- 7. Re: Hardtop Resto - expensive seals? (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:19:41 +0100
- On the other hand: http://www.hargerave-mawson.demon.co.uk/Spitfire%20Estate.jpg I've certainly seen worse... ATB -- Mike Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea" http://www.gre
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00184.html (8,555 bytes)
- 8. Re: Hardtop Resto - expensive seals? (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:46:04 +0100
- Ahem. Let me attempt to spell my surname correctly this time: http://www.hargreave-mawson.demon.co.uk/Spitfire%20Estate.jpg ATB -- Mike Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00185.html (8,919 bytes)
- 9. Re: Hardtop Resto - expensive seals? (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott A. Roberts" <herald1200@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 08:46:57 -0500
- On the other hand: http://www.hargreave-mawson.demon.co.uk/Spitfire%20Estate.jpg I've certainly seen worse... ATB It looks like a Mini did something it shouldn't oughta done to that Spitfire's mother
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00186.html (8,102 bytes)
- 10. Re: Hardtop Resto - expensive seals? (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:14:18 +0100
- My wife has just come home, and seen what I have done to my car. She tells me that I've just invented the Jensen Interceptor... ATB -- Mike Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crim
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00190.html (8,454 bytes)
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