Re: Re GTV floor boards

[Richard Welty <rwelty@domain.elided>]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 15:35:28 -0500 David Ziglin <davidz@domain.elided> wrote:

> Matt Jones was not able to help me a couple of years ago because he 
> was out of stock.  He sent me to Alan in Canada but warned me to 
> accept only full tilt factory parts or repros.
 
> Alan talked me out of them insisting that what I wanted was 
> "something else."   I am sorry that I cannot be clearer.
 
> When they arrived at my body shop, my man said, "What the hell is this
> shit?"

interesting. from Alan's web site:

"98% of my customers just want to cut their weak floors out and replace them
with new parts. The Italian floors look good right out of the box but will
not fit your car as is unless you  are changing the inner sills.

"The Italian floors will require removal of their entire outside edge to
fit them into your car.Then you are left with no method to attach them.
By the time you fabricate an extra angle, weld it to the inner sill,
and then finally weld the floor to the angle; the finished job looks
like an example of poor planning.

"If all you want to do is change floors; buy mine, they are copies of
the originals with all the same basic detailing and most importantly
I provide a right angle going up the inner sill 2" for a simple lap
joint. This makes for a straight forward installation."

so your body guy wanted the factory panel, and not the one Alan describes,
and he managed to get the factory replacement panel to look like the
original, despite the comments above.

it's a good thing i'm not in a hurry; this is going to take a little
research.

richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty@domain.elided
Averill Park Networking                                         518-573-7592
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