You know what else might work, the later Spifires have a chrome molding
around the windshield with two "filler" clips, top and bottom, that might
fit...still available
Dave Willner
Stroudsburg, PA
59 TR3A Apple Green
70 MGB BRG
70 BSA 441 Victor Special
----- Original Message -----
From: "A Daniel Cronin" <adcronin@ameritech.net>
To: "Brian Thomas" <thomasb@queensu.ca>; "Larry Rausch"
<stonywoods840@rochester.rr.com>
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [TR] TR3 grill molding
> You might look at early 70's VW Bugs for possible chrome grill clip match
> or
> close to it on the rear window trim and perhaps other locations.
>
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> ----- Original Message
> ----
> From: Brian Thomas <thomasb@queensu.ca>
> To: Larry Rausch
> <stonywoods840@rochester.rr.com>
> Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Sent: Friday,
> September 12, 2008 9:41:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [TR] TR3 grill molding
>
> Hi Larry,
> At 03:41 PM 09/09/2008, you wrote:
>>Hi: I've just found the molding that goes
> around the grill for a small
>>mouth TR3. But still missing the two clips that
> hold the ends together
>>can someone show me what these clips look like and if
> they are available
>>and also how is the molding attached to the front apron,
> what type of
>>clip? .Larry
>
> My 1956 TR3 when purchased in 1975, had the grill
> surround but was
> missing the two joiner clips. I went to a wrecking yard and
> looked
> for windshield join clips that were of a similar size and shape,
> found two - I don't recall on what and used slotted pan-head screws
> to mount
> them.
>
> Jump forward 30+ years and a friend who in the late 1980's ran TRF
> Canada out of Niagara Falls Ontario, gave me a couple of boxes of
> stuff he'd
> collected to redo his 1956 TR3 - now long gone. Included
> was the complete
> grill surround with joiners and clips. I can
> probably dig these out and
> supply pics if you think this would be useful.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
>
> Brian S.
> Thomas email: ThomasB@QueensU.Ca
> Holliday Point, R R 1
> office:613-533-2228
> Wolfe Island, Ontario fax: 613-533-2168
> CANADA K0H
> 2Y0 home: 613-385-1947
> toys: 54 TR2,
> 56 TR3, 67 TR4A, 80 TR8, 52
> Ferguson TEA20
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