M series Stainless Bumpers

[prideaux]

About 18 months ago I contacted Harringtons asking if they made these they did not at the time however they asked if I had a set they could copy however I did not at the time and I also felt that they needed an original set from an early car to get it as close as possible.
18 months later they have done just that and done them in Stainless rather than chrome which is great as fitting them on a later car there will probably need to be some fettling to get them fitting nice however if they need trimming a little then there is no chrome to damage just thought I should let others know like any pattern part I would not expect them to be a bolt on fit but should be an easy enough job to get right at about I believe they are about £600 a set

http://www.groupharrington.com/en

[Slow M]

Those look excellent!

In thee eighties, I bought a pair of urethane and stainless steel units from John Wadman. They still look excellent, and are still solid. He may still sell them.

Best,
B.

[madsvlund]

I've been searching for 1½ year, and t weeks ago desided to give up and do a "cast-in" modification instead, so now the weekend can be used to consider to go a bit backward and change route

[Slow M]

I also have a pair of light weight fiberglass ones, but they are of poor quality. Every now and again, a pustule bursts, and un-cured resin oozes out. Can't remember where those originated.

Best,
B.

[jastx]

Very interesting, but the website from the link shows no results when searching TVR.

[madsvlund]

I got a mail yesterday from these guy's www.classicworldracing.co.uk they have them as well.

[griff 200]

At least working with fibreglass it's easier to change during the building phase ? When you cut you're sides to make them wider at the fount to match the widened bonnet did it bend out well or do you need to ease the panels at all as that's my job for this week. Thanks richard

[prideaux]

Just to show the difference in fit between the rubber bumpers and chrome on a later car the gap is certainly larger but still looks correct IMOP





One I found on the web maybe someone can post a close up the would show the difference better


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[prideaux]

madsvlund said:

I got a mail yesterday from these guy's www.classicworldracing.co.uk they have them as well.

Great to see that they are doing them as when I talked with them 18 months ago they had no plans to do so well done we need our specialist suppliers so try and use them as much as possible
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[gmw9666]

Cant you already buy these items from TVR Specialists such as DG etc, I recall them being advertised during the last year or so in sprint........I cant see the point in getting other non TVR specialists to make these and take precious sales from the tvr specialist network that we all rely on day in day out.

Just my 2 cents, I maybe wrong

Edited by gmw9666 on Tuesday 18th February 10:19

[prideaux]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[lee2cossies]

Great that these are available again but I'm sure David Gerald had them approx 10 years ago as we were going to buy a set for ours, remember him saying he hardly sells any as they were only fitted to pre 73 m's originally.

[prideaux]

lee2cossies said:

Great that these are available again but I'm sure David Gerald had them approx 10 years ago as we were going to buy a set for ours, remember him saying he hardly sells any as they were only fitted to pre 73 m's originally.

Yes and they are doing them as well the link to the pictures on the other thread show that with careful fabricating to the stainless ones you can achieve a near perfect fit as Adrian says easier to take material off rather than add material
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[prideaux]

I got this picture of bumpers from the Night shift not sure whats going on here but they have used the rubber strip on one on a MK1 Grantura

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Edited as I have now been told that that was OE on some early MK1 Granturas
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Edited by prideaux on Wednesday 16th April 19:50