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Subject: [TR] VIN stamping
From: tr3driver at ca.rr.com (Randall)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:39:42 -0800
References: <702241019.647502.1296142216961.JavaMail.root@vznit170074> <AANLkTi=9k8Wk9bQ-7MJBqtX=1V55bqc6UTcvEhEF721t@mail.gmail.com>
> I thought they were aluminum rivets.  I used pop rivets (so did
> Standard Triumph on my TR4) if you're fussy you could fill the hole
> with a bit of JBWeld for a more accurate look.

Originals on a TR3 were aluminum rivets with a separate shaft in the center
which ISTR was steel.  Not quite a pop-rivet, but close.  I'll bet you could
save the center piece and drive it into a pop-rivet and no one could tell
the difference.

-- Randall 


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