[Mgs] grill for a 56 1500

Simon Matthews simon.d.matthews at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 21:27:24 MST 2019


I bought a bench grinder and ground down the shell until it fit.

Simon

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 7:34 PM Max Heim via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> Simon, I had the same problem with a Moss MGB grill. I couldn’t make it fit.
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> When I had a shop take a stab at it, they wedged it in so tight I lost a lot of paint when I went to remove it.
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> Finally used an old original shell, the teeth out of a different shell (that had a dent in it), and the vertical bar and badge off the new one. The old shell fit fine.
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> Max Heim
> '66 MGB
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> On Jan 23, 2019, at 8:57 PM, Simon Matthews via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> Looks nice. I had to replace a grill because someone rolled backwards
> into my car, I had to do a lot of grining on the new grill to get it
> to fit. I'm not sure if the grill or my car was not the proper shape.
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> Simon
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> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 8:50 AM dave via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> I had requested info from SF on their grills.  This is what she sent me.  See also http://www.namgar.com/articles/article/namgar_member_news/new_supplier_of_grilles_for_mga/
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> nfi
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> From: Scarborough Faire <mgaparts at aol.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 8:56 AM
> To: dave <dave at ranteer.com>
> Subject: Re: grill for a 56 1500
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