[Healeys] Lower grille mounting brackets

[Bob Haskell]

Wavy grille would be 100-6 and 3000 MkI.  Car in question appears to be 
100-6 based on the year: 1957.

Bob Haskell
AHCA 3000 Mk I registrar
http://www.ciahc.org/registry_3000mk1.php

On 03/10/2014 09:55 PM, I Erbs wrote:
> 100,100-6,3000?
>
> Ira Erbs
> Portland, OR
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> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Andy Thorp <bce257 at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to fit up an early (wavy) grille and have run into a few
>> problems
>> for which I'd appreciate some advice from the experienced folk.
>>
>> 1) The lower lip trim doesn't fit very well over the rivets which hold the
>> three lower grille brackets on. The bulged out stems of the installed
>> rivets
>> are too big for the finisher trim to comfortably go over. Were they
>> originally
>> riveted on? How else were the grille brackets attached to the shroud?
>>
>> 2) How was the lower lip finisher installed without A) damaging it and B)
>> scratching the paint. It seems that either the ends have to be trimmed
>> short
>> so it can be installed (like many restored pics online) or it has to be
>> bent
>> and distorted to force it to fit. Neither way seems very satisfactory.
>>
>> Part of the original problem is that the grille opening was too narrow
>> vertically and had a rather flat area in the middle instead of the original
>> curved ellipse. I have cut about a 1/2" wide slot section out of the shroud
>> below the lower lip and pushed the lip downwards which has improved the
>> shape
>> of the opening but I can't figure out how to get both ends of the trim
>> installed as they have to go over the lip which has a smaller radius inside
>> the opening than the trim.
>>
>> 3) I'd like to find either the angle of the grille panel or the measurement
>> horizontally from the top of the grille opening to the bottom.
>> http://tinyurl.com/lrfyapp It seems that there are quite a few restored
>> cars
>> with near vertical grilles and it doesn't look quite right. An unrestored
>> Mk2
>> here has 132mm horizontally between the top and bottom of the grille
>> opening,
>> whereas the earlier (1957) problem-child shroud has only 110mm and that is
>> after I have pulled the bottom lip forward about 30mm.
>>
>> Measurements of a later grille:
>> http://tinyurl.com/mhu7367
>>
>> Can somebody with a known good/original early shroud measure the distance
>> using a ruler and a spirit level to find vertical please?
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Andy.
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