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thecollingburnboys
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 28/12/2017 : 21:37:01
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Very interesting, thanks to those who posted the photos.
In the photo with all the seats stacked up in the background (they are becnh seatbacks with the bases facing the other way, deep to narrow and vice versa) you can see that they weren't finished to a particularly high standard as the rexine is creased at the sides. They didn't pull them tight enough and everything was attached with tacks back then using a magnetic tack hammer instead of an air powered staple gun which gives much better results now as you use the head of the gun to hold/weight the material in place. I and many trimmers still use tacks but I only use them when the head of the tack is seen or gives a better finish, otherwise it's staples all the way.
Regards James Collingburn |
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sam christie
United Kingdom
3056 Posts |
Posted - 29/12/2017 : 09:47:10
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James, what do you make of this detail?
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Joe S
Switzerland
22 Posts |
Posted - 29/12/2017 : 11:30:08
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This may be a leap in the dark, but could this be the 1000th J2 and this chap is adding the number to the side of the hood or the tonneau? Just a thought. It would be a milestone to get a photographer in for.
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
5999 Posts |
Posted - 29/12/2017 : 12:40:21
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Judging by the relocated SU pump, they’re at at least J3591 so we’ll past the 1000th car!
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
5999 Posts |
Posted - 29/12/2017 : 13:36:33
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Blxxdy autocorrect - that’d be ‘well past the 1000th car’
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thecollingburnboys
United Kingdom
574 Posts |
Posted - 29/12/2017 : 14:34:32
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I don't know but he is using something very thick to make those kind of marks, that is no white chinagraph pencil and if it is tailors chalk then he's using a bloomin' great brick of it :-)
I honestly don't know, adds to the mystery.
Regards James Collingburn |
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Hugh
United Kingdom
73 Posts |
Posted - 29/12/2017 : 20:50:57
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Simon
Possibly the 1,500th car?
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sam christie
United Kingdom
3056 Posts |
Posted - 29/12/2017 : 21:44:42
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I am going to stick my neck out and go with John Cooper's back window theory. I feel sure I have seen something exactly like this somewhere before but I cannot recollect where.
But of course (as John Cooper has mentioned) such panels appeared in roofs of the same period. Their success is probably well reflected by their popularity.
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mgtommm
USA
497 Posts |
Posted - 29/12/2017 : 21:53:15
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I thought it was a strange rear window design but in these enlarged crops it's clearly either not the back of the hood/top or the bottom right edge is folded up. If it's the latter, it cannot be a window pattern as it's well off center to the right.
Simon, clearly the brake drum fin polisher is further down the line and the worker did a superb job on mine, I must say. Foreseeing the future problems, mine was also fitted with stronger 8" cast aluminum backing plates, and he went well overboard by polishing those - likely while waiting for the black paint to dry on the trimmed bonnet panels.
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JMH
United Kingdom
910 Posts |
Posted - 29/12/2017 : 22:36:39
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| Cast Ali 8" back plates, now there's a rare thing! #128526; |
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
5999 Posts |
Posted - 29/12/2017 : 22:46:44
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It certainly doesn't seem to me to be the rear of the hood. Immediately below the odd markings there seems to be a finished edge and the only place there could be a finished edge with no Lift The Dot fasteners would be around the door opening. The way the material lies away from the edging would suggest that it's the section of the hood behind the driver rather than the roof, i.e. the rear 'quarter panel'. Also, the zeroes, if that's what they are, seem to be increasing in size from right to left which wouldn't suggest a number, but might be consistent with some sort of window lights? All very odd.
Tommm, I'm with you on the alloy fin polisher!
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sam christie
United Kingdom
3056 Posts |
Posted - 30/12/2017 : 15:28:15
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I agree a number would have zeros all the same size. I can only see two 'zeros' clearly so
I guess a small outer zero each side and some large ones in the centre (if it is a rear window).
................ 00000.........................
I appreciate metal framed celluloid panels are of course at best a dubious idea.
On the other hand a fully buttoned up hood with side panels in place creates major blind spots.
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Hugh
United Kingdom
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Posted - 30/12/2017 : 18:04:30
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Surely marking out to make a window would be done in another workshop, not on the production line. Where as a production number would more likely be done on the line when the specific vehicle was being completed.
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sullivan
USA
423 Posts |
Posted - 30/12/2017 : 19:29:43
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Carpet for the tunnel ?
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mgtommm
USA
497 Posts |
Posted - 30/12/2017 : 21:29:30
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Brian may be on to it. Possibly carpet flaps over gearbox with the LTD fasteners toward the front, but it doesn't explain why the worker is drawing white underneath, unless it's Halloween. BOO?
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