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RE: [TR] TR3A Grill

To: "'Scott Suhring'" <suhringtr36@comcast.net>,
Subject: RE: [TR] TR3A Grill
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 20:29:01 -0800
> When the original style grill is "bowed in" it means that either it is
> an after market repro that was not done correctly, or the front apron
> has been damaged in the past, and whoever repaired it, used a lot of
> body filler, and did not capture the original curves of the apron.  The
> grill should be vertical without any bowing.

It's well documented that, even when new, you could not take a fender off one of
these cars and expect to bolt it onto another new car, without having to tweak
it.  The manufacturing tolerances were simply not that close for sheet metal.

Same thing holds true of the grille opening (and probably the grille itself).

Randall

PS A grill is for cooking.


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