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RE: MK II Rear Window Seal

To: "'Suzie'" <suzie_bear@hotmail.com>, Spitfire <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: MK II Rear Window Seal
From: "Mitchell, Doug (D.B.)" <dmitchel@ford.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:52:30 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suzie [mailto:suzie_bear@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 3:23 PM
> To: Spitfire
> Subject: Re: MK II Rear Window Seal
> 
> 
> 
> I can't confirm for sure but I think when they rebuilt Baby 
> Blue the garage
> used a MkIV seal. After twice ordering a MkIII seal from 
> Rimmers & twice
> receiving a MkIV one they finally asked the question and 
> found that what
> they wanted wasn't available. It was 2 years ago now but I've 
> just checked
> through my old bills and it seems that somehow they made use 
> of the MkIV
> seal by cutting it to fit. Is this likely or was the MkIV 
> seal a different
> profile to the MkIII one?
> 
> One other thought. Having just looked in the Rimmers 
> catalogue trying to
> refresh my memory I see they're offering a GRP MkIII hard top 
> complete with
> rear window fitted. If someone's fitting the
> rear glass to these surely that means that particular someone 
> has a source
> of the correct seals??
> 
> Suzie
> 
> 

While it is possible to use the MK IV rear window seal, I would
think that it would require a lot of piecing together as the
MK IV rear window has squarish corners as compared to the earlier
cars rounded ones.

Cheers,

--
Doug Mitchell
mailto:dbmitch@peoplepc.com
'73 Spitfire 1500

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