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« Reply #1395 on: July 18, 2009, 11:16:47 PM » |
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Thanks.  I wanted something with a bit more shape to it than just a flat trailer guard. Could've had Madron create me some in fibreglass but I want to keep the Pop all steel if I can. I looked at reproduction steel bike guards with a similar raised bead, but apart from them being the wrong diameter, they were around 90 quid each. These cost me 45 quid a piece. 50 if I wanted them polished. I plan to fit the front indicators to the leading edge of the front guards, so Darren left a break in the beads for them to sit in. The bulb holders & lenses are from Stafford Vehicle Components. White frosted glass lenses with orange bulbs. They're designed to fit repro sidelights as used on early Jags, Rileys, MGs etc. I'm hoping to make my own ali bodies though & blend them into the guards. Eventually the guards will be mounted on tubular struts & powder-coated satin black. Brooklands Bodycraft. Darren Goodgame. 01865 451914 07790 286229 |
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« Reply #1396 on: July 19, 2009, 06:32:16 PM » |
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they look sweeeeeeeeet  and yes I am still hear  and look in all the time to keep my eyes  on the builds |
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« Reply #1397 on: July 19, 2009, 07:17:15 PM » |
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Hello mate. We get a lot of visitors who prefer to read rather than write. Fine by us, but if we ain't covering the stuff you want us to, you have to get involved & speak up. Mr Goodgame the mudguard guy had a stand at the last Beaulieu autojumble I went to. He was displaying an aluminium body he'd built for a Riley tourer. Lovely workmanship. As well as mudguards & the like he can also punch louvres, add swages, all sorts of clever stuff. |
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« Reply #1398 on: July 19, 2009, 10:04:20 PM » |
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i wondered what the gap was on the beading.
plain metal trailer arches for mine(in the boot of course!!!)
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« Reply #1399 on: July 20, 2009, 02:36:58 PM » |
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you ain't it, till you've "Bobbed" a Brit!!!
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« Reply #1400 on: July 20, 2009, 09:31:35 PM » |
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He'll be wanting a roof & windows next.  Tried the guards on the tyres this afternoon. They look rather good, in my slightly biased opinion. They'll sit an inch or so off the rubber when they're fitted. |
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« Reply #1401 on: July 20, 2009, 09:32:55 PM » |
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Rear guards-
towards the front?
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« Reply #1402 on: July 20, 2009, 09:33:25 PM » |
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Or central?
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« Reply #1403 on: July 20, 2009, 09:33:56 PM » |
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Or to the back?
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« Reply #1404 on: July 20, 2009, 09:35:12 PM » |
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The front indicators will sit about here on the front guards.
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« Reply #1405 on: July 20, 2009, 10:11:32 PM » |
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rears to the rear, unless you want rooster tails!!! they look extremely sexy in a strange way  |
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« Reply #1406 on: July 20, 2009, 10:41:50 PM » |
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So do I, I'm told. |
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« Reply #1407 on: July 21, 2009, 03:35:59 PM » |
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I wish i'd never seen those guards,i can feel a bit of angle grinder frenzy coming on. IMO the guards need to be low edge towards the center of the car,as in the first pic.  |
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« Reply #1408 on: July 21, 2009, 05:24:47 PM » |
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Yeah, I was thinking the same. Could still be persuaded otherwise, but I reckon they're going to throw up plumes of water in heavy rain where ever I put them. Took the front guards & the light units over to my mate Berni Andrews of Project Fabrications in Newbury, Berks after work today. Hopefully he'll make me a pair of "pods" to house the bulb holders & lenses that will blend into the top of the guards fairly unobtrusively. I also picked up a stainless linking rod for the gear change from my mate Reg in Basingstoke, Hants. Machined from 10mm rod for a fiver. Now fitted & working. No, I haven't got a toffee apple for a gear change |
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