[Healeys] Fit

[Perry Small]

This will not help Michael with his situation but it illustrates an old Austin axiom. “Completely build the car before doing the finial finishes.” Use all the parts and fasteners that you intend to use on the finished car and adjust things to get a decent fit. Dismantle and final finish the bits. Reassemble. 
Michael the door fit can be tweaked a bit to get the outer trailing edge to line up with the rear guard. The nice aluminum cockpit trim can be bent to fit better and you might have to use a spacer block between the trim and body inner body panel
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> On Mar 16, 2022, at 6:43 PM, Michael MacLean <springer.mike51 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Just had the cockpit (can you still say that?) trim powder coated to a very close facsimile of bright dip anodizing.  Installing the trim broght home the fact this car is a hodge podge of parts from many different cars. The doors are from another car.  The inner frame superstructure was removed  to do rust repair to the frame then welded back on.  The frame was put in a fixture to keep it square and straight, but there was no such fixture to Weld the inner frame to the "ladder". You can see the result in the picture.  By the way, the other side (driver's side) lines up fine.  Another benefit from not having the original cockpit trim is some ends are too long and the holes in the doors and shrouds do not exactly line up with the holes in the trim.  Notice the angle of the screw head in the door trim.
> Mike MacLean
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