For GT-6 and Spitfires there are at least two sources of floorpans and
other metal...Rover and some lesser quality "stamper". The difference
in the products is very obvious with lousy edge and groove definition
and lack of drain holes common to the non Rover parts.
I've installed several Rover floorpans and the fit my cars
precisely...and replicate the original fine. Given the expense of
maintaining the tooling and relatively small market the $74.00 dollar
price per floor pan was excellent (IMHO).
PMQ
73 TR-6
72 GT-6
69 GT-6+ (2)
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Subject: Re: sheet metal
Author: Tom Tweed <ak627@dayton.wright.edu> at smtpgate
Date: 11/14/96 10:25 PM
Hello Dan,
This question, or essentially the same one, was kicked around a while
back, maybe two months ago. Back then I suggested that maybe all the
floor pans, for example, were coming off just one set of stamping dies,
and going to all the various vendors for them to price as they chose.
I never heard a definitive answer at the time, and I don't have one
now, I just have an idea of what it costs to `tool up' for something as
large as a floor pan, assuming that the original dies were worn out,
scrapped by Leyland years ago, or are lost in a warehouse somewhere.
It's many thousands of dollars, so I would guess that given the fairly
small number of stampings sold in a typical year, there's probably not
much competition for whoever has the working sets of dies for a given
part. That could be good news or bad.
Anybody out there know where replacement sheet metal is coming from ?
Still curious,
Tom Tweed
SW Ohio
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