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Re: '65 Triumph Spitfire4 - Bad Tub

To: Bschwartz@encad.com, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: '65 Triumph Spitfire4 - Bad Tub
From: SCHWANGAU@aol.com
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 11:37:35 -0500
In a message dated 96-11-04 10:34:42 EST, Bschwartz@encad.com (Barry
Schwartz) writes:

>Pay particular
>attention to the sill's. These are stressed/structural members of the body
>and contribute greatly to frame/body ridgidity. 

This is the main problem on my own 65.  It is so week that the door will not
open when you sit in the driver's seat.  The whole tub sort of flexes down in
the middle.  What I would really like is to find a replacement early tub, but
all I have looked at are as bad as mine. Installing  replacement panels is
possible, but so extensive that it would be like the old Dutchmans pipe:
 replaced the stem, replaced the bowl, but it's the same old pipe.  So, where
does one start, and where does one stop?

I just open my wallet and look for the answer.  Then I close my wallet real
fast and go for a drive.  This reminds me that a car that runs well and is
fun, is better than a pile of parts that will have to give to my
grandchildren in 20 years.

Brian 

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