Ken Brown <kbrown@trmx3.dot.ca.gov> wrote:
> I'm looking for a little help from my fellow Club Two Five Oh members or
> anyone who might have some insight into my question. As part of the
>restoration
> of my TR 250 I noticed that the car had at one time been in a accident and had
> the front valance replaced with one from a TR 4. While the valance fits OK it
> is missing the air opening in the lower center of the valance.
> Can someone on the list let me know the dimensions of the opening including
> location, size (including approx. radius of the corners), whether the opening
> has a lip around it or if it is just cut out? Is it worth cutting the opening
> out?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ken TR 250 since 1980
Ken,
When I bought my 250, the front valance was also in very bad shape. It was
so
smashed up and stretched out of shape, that I had buy a TR4 one to replace it.
Worrying about originality, like you, I decided that before I mounted it to the
car,
I must have vent hole put in it. I would have done it myself, but there is a
curled
edge. I took my roughly straightened origional and my new replacement part
down to
a shop in Stratford Ct, called Automotive Restorations. They are a very high
quality
shop. I talked to a man named Mark Barton, who is from England, and
specializes in
fabricating fenders and other body parts from sheet metal. He put the hole I
wanted
in, and while I won't say it was an "excellent" job (I haggled over the price &
evidently
got what I paid for), it was a fairly accurate reproduction of what the old one
looked
like, both in placement and size of the origional.
Keeping in mind I have a reproduction panel hole, here are the stats:
Width: 8 3/4"
Height: 3 1/4"
Edge: 1/4" curled in
Corners: Match curve of a 1 3/8" circle
Location: 4" down from the upper edge (the fold edge, not the absolute panel
edge)
Good Luck,
JOE IV
TR Two Five Oh
WALLINGFORD, CT. USA
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