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Re: 1000-4 originality questions.....

To: <Healeys@autox.team.net>, <Fiat500f@aol.com>
Subject: Re: 1000-4 originality questions.....
From: "Rich C" <richchrysler@quickclic.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:10:12 -0500
Paul,

1. The Armacord on the rear panel goes right up to within a 1/4" or so of 
the alloy cockpit rails where vinyl is then sewn on to be glued on to the 
surface where the cockpit rail will fasten. Do you not have a kit for this 
that would fit from the bottom up to show you where it must go? See picture 
att'd.

2. Those removable bulkhead screws need to be long enough to go through 3 
layers of carpet plus the metal panels. The removable panel will have carpet 
applied to the outer face, plus wrapped around the side edges and glued onto 
the back side for an inch or so. Plus the carpet on the side walls will 
extend forward and be glued to the face flange. This allows for a carpet to 
carpet seal along both sides. The screws I use are countersunk chrome 
phillips head #6 by about 1" long, seating the head into the same little cup 
washers that the rest of the trim panels use. 3 run down each side. See 
picture att'd.

3. I always send these pull cables to Heritage Upholstery and Trim and they 
sew the sleeves onto the cables correctly with the proper double roll over 
and stitch of the vinyl edges. These are quite a snug fit onto the cables, 
enough so that I don't think you'd be able to work the vinyl over the ends 
after they were sewn. I don't have a really good picture illustrating this 
point but this one shows how snug a fit they are onto the cables.

Rich Chrysler


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Fiat500f@aol.com>
To: <Healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 2:40 AM
Subject: 1000-4 originality questions.....


> Hello again.  Still working on the interior of my friends 1954 AH100-4 
> BN1.
> Three questions:
>
> 1.  How high up does the Armacord go on the rear most vertical panel  of 
> the
> cockpit.  This is the panel that has the cutout for the spare tire  to 
> poke
> through.  Does the Armacord go all the way up to the aluminum  cockpit 
> moulding
> or just as high as the bend in the panel about 3" below the  moulding?
>
> 2.  How long are the chrome screws that fasten the gearbox front  vertical
> panel (the sort of removable firewall portion at the front of the 
> gearbox) to
> the vertical kick panels (the panels that, like, on the drivers  side, 
> LHD, are
> to the right of your right foot).  I think the  Anderson/Moment book says 
> to
> use the same screws that you use to fasten the  interior trim panels to 
> the
> cockpit sides, but those screws are only about 1/2"  long and don't work 
> on the
> gearbox panel.
>
> 3.  My friend bought the Moss interior panel kit.  All the door  pieces 
> seem
> to be in the kit, but, there doesn't seem to be the  vinyl "tubes" that 
> cover
> the door pull cables.  What do folks do for  this?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul B.

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