Re: New Tonneau

[Michael Card]

Hans Looking back though my notes for TC-8233 I find that I did some work on this about 18 months ago. [b]1. Rear pegs[/b] Horizontal position. Using a photograph, provided by Malcolm Green, of a new TC, rear view, I scaled these as located about 1 1/4 inches horizontally outside the seam where the curved rear quarter body panel meets the flat body panel that is behind the tank. From an old quarter panel I measured 1 3/8 inches, very close to the photo figure. I used 1 3/8 inches. Vertical position. From the old panel I measured this as 1 3/16 inches from the top of the quarter panel. When the tonneau was being made, the trimmer altered this to 1 inch to get the correct relationship of tonneau bottom edge to fuel-tank top. [Remember that different cars will have slightly different thicknesses of packing under the body-to-chassis mounts, but the fuel tank stays located to the chassis on its rubber pads, so tank-to-body relationship will be very slightly different from car to car.] [b]2. Side pegs [/b] [These are hard to position using photographs because there is usually no sharp reference point in the photo.] Horizontal position. Again using the old panel I measured the position as 5 inches forward of the front edge of the slot for the side screen rear tang. Vertical position. 1 1/4 inches below the top of the panel. The old panel I used for these measurements had only a single hole in each location so it was probably original, but no guarantee. However the rear peg position corresponded well with the photo. Mike Card Surrey, UK PS I just managed to restrain myself from choking on your mention of a [i][u]full length [/u][/i]tonneau.

[Anthony]

----- Original Message ----- [b]From:[/b] mike.card@mcmg.freeserve.co.uk [b]To:[/b] hholtman@get2net.dk ; MG-TABC@yahoogroups.com [b]Sent:[/b] Sunday, April 01, 2001 8:05 AM [b]Subject:[/b] Re: [mg-tabc] New Tonneau Hans Looking back though my notes for TC-8233 I find that I did some work on this about 18 months ago. [b]1. Rear pegs[/b] Horizontal position. Using a photograph, provided by Malcolm Green, of a new TC, rear view, I scaled these as located about 1 1/4 inches horizontally outside the seam where the curved rear quarter body panel meets the flat body panel that is behind the tank. From an old quarter panel I measured 1 3/8 inches, very close to the photo figure. I used 1 3/8 inches. Vertical position. From the old panel I measured this as 1 3/16 inches from the top of the quarter panel. When the tonneau was being made, the trimmer altered this to 1 inch to get the correct relationship of tonneau bottom edge to fuel-tank top. [Remember that different cars will have slightly different thicknesses of packing under the body-to-chassis mounts, but the fuel tank stays located to the chassis on its rubber pads, so tank-to-body relationship will be very slightly different from car to car.] [b]2. Side pegs [/b] [These are hard to position using photographs because there is usually no sharp reference point in the photo.] Horizontal position. Again using the old panel I measured the position as 5 inches forward of the front edge of the slot for the side screen rear tang. Vertical position. 1 1/4 inches below the top of the panel. The old panel I used for these measurements had only a single hole in each location so it was probably original, but no guarantee. However the rear peg position corresponded well with the photo. Mike Card Surrey, UK PS I just managed to restrain myself from choking on your mention of a [i][u]full length [/u][/i]tonneau. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Dear mike, A full length tonneau may annoy the purists who stick to the pennypinching coverlet originally supplied but to those who use their cars everywhere and anywhere the full tonneau offers reasonable security from prying eyes without the need to erect the hood and sidescreens .With a full tonneau you do not need to have so many pegs on the drivers side as that side is not in use when the car is in motion unless you go for the aerodynamic approach and install a small slit for your head to poke through.I suppose the best idea would be for you to have a standard tonneau for confounded concours events and a full one for when your friends are not looking. I ,like Badger,have few friends so my full length one is on all the time and it's great. Best wishes to all and particularly to Badger . Tony Roodhouse

[LuckyFloridaLin@aol.com]

DEAR TONY; I ALSO HAVE A FULL LENGTH TONNEAU AND WOULD BE HONORED TO BE IN THE COMPANY OF"THE BADGER". HOPE HE DOESN'T DO A HOUDINI AFTER SELLING OFF A LIFETIME OF MG MEMORIES. TALLY HO! THOM COLLINS

[Chip Old]

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, LuckyFloridaLin@aol.com wrote to karrsmg@ntlworld.com,...:

> DEAR TONY; I ALSO HAVE A FULL LENGTH TONNEAU AND WOULD BE HONORED TO > BE IN THE COMPANY OF"THE BADGER". HOPE HE DOESN'T DO A HOUDINI AFTER > SELLING OFF A LIFETIME OF MG MEMORIES. TALLY HO! THOM COLLINS

Thom, please post in normal upper and lower case, not all caps like you've been doing. In the Internet world posting in all caps is known as "shouting", and is harder to read. -- Chip Old 1948 M.G. TC TC6710 XPAG7430 NEMGTR #2271 Cub Hill, Maryland 1962 Triumph TR4 CT3154LO CT3479E fold@bcpl.net