Mopar Muscle Association UK

I have, after a longtime looking, found a pair of 1968 spring special "gills". These are rare enough but what is almost gold dust is what they refer to as the matching "spears", the long piece of trim that runs between the gills and the front wheel arch trim, all 61" inches of it. Its triangular in section and 1/2" wide, you can see where it fits over the gill. I am trying to source the correct parts but this may prove impossible.
Can anyone think of a piece of trim from something else that would do the job? Something I could alter? even someone that could make it or something like it?

Triumph Herald side trims, more semi circular than triangular,but in stainless so could be cut and joined to the right length. There are three each side, bonnet and doors are equal size throughout, rear wings taper to a spear point.
If they are low down and match, the fact they are round rather than triangular might be disguised.
I can probably measure the ones on mine if it helps.

https://juststainless.co.uk/product-cat ... edge-trim/

any of this worth a play? 3 meters a go.. if they have any customer service skills should be happy to send 10 cm samples


if its half inch High from panel or if its 7 shaped i.e longer on 1 side or the other, a bit of Pythagoras or trig and we can work out Hypotenuse with adjacent and opposite the right length to make it not equilateral

if its not Right Angled then it will need squishing.. get enough to allow mole grip clamping so you can draw it through a copper jawed pillar drill vice a couple of times to squidge it or i guess you could weld up a former or die from angle iron, right angle merging to correct angle and feed stainless strip through. couple of rollers or bolts would help to keep the top Apex of the trim in the top of the die (can you tell i'm bored and between meetings, coming up with daft ideas, i can draw a picture if you want )

slide hammer to pull or set the other end into a wood block like a file goes into a file handle and tap tap tap.. for a few days that should slowly drive it through... shares in WD40 may be necessary

stainless will be easier than aluminium angle, ally will work harden too quick

buff it and fit it, use caravan panel tape to fit it or to hold in trim mounts

all far too easy to say and potentially very hard to do

but a home made former or die to get the angle right might be the go.. then stock metal supply becomes an option

make more than 1 set then i guess...ebay calls

Dave

The VW Karman Ghia has two stainless trims running along the bottom of the sides and again in 3 separate sections for adaption. Probably a bit too flat for your purpose but might be worth a look.

Nice one Dave, I reckon that might just be possible.... I'm familiar with Herald trim Matt, it's much too flat, this need a real peak on it.

or if you know someone with a bead roller

I don't understand Is this a traction aid or something?? ...adding more weight

Well after a fair bit of thinking and looking, there was a guy on Facebook claiming he had the mother of all stocks of Barracuda parts, many NOS.
Bet you haven't got any rocker spears quips I, got one pair left says he so I just had to bite the bullet and go for it. Mounting hardware for these isn't reproduced but he claimed Challenger trunk lid trim clips would work so I bought some of those and he was right.
So, trim is in great shape but is a bit tarnished especially on the lower side, I tried some solvol and wire wool and it works to a degree but being stainless it's going to be slow work, anyone have more experience of trim restoration have a better idea?

I feel your pain when it comes to trim Blue .I searched for two years for the correct trunk trim for mine ...when I finally found it all i discovered my trunk was from a sport fury which had a completely different trim to the Savoy …… …..so I made up a template and drilled new holes for the savoy trim .….the corner section of trim is rocking horse poo but like you I found a NOS set ...I hope he is happy with the kidney I gave him for it LOL

The guy on the Tri-Chevy Forum actually DA'ed all his trim with 400 grade and the progressively fine grades until all the scratching and pitting was out and then finished with a buffer and Rouge. Took him bloody ages....

Can you not use a regular metal polisher company? I've done various bits of trim and not expensive...

Didn't think of sending it out I tend to do most things myself. I'll have a look to see if there's anywhere left around here that does that.

Hi man you sure it stainless? it looks like dull anodised ali in some of those pics.i restored all the stainless side trim for the 57 a while ago, go down the grits to 1200 then on the polisher.

have you tried "Shiny Sinks"




how do i describe it

when you use brasso on brass you get covered in filthy black gunge eventually. and the more horrible it gets, the better the effect when you use a clean cloth

this seems to have a similar Modus operandi nothing happens but slowly you start to get the dirty black cloth... keep polishing and eventually do a clean cloth polish and it comes up good. as a bare minimum you will end up with clean pitting rather than dirty tarnished.

provided it is stainless

as its for sinks the main aim is to make a rather sorry stainless sink covered in scratches and tea stains look something like new again so its more focused on removing the gunk and making the minor scratches disappear it potentially has no abrasive so i think its just chemical cleaning

it does however dry like T cut so maybe there is a very fine abrasive in there hard to tell

but i think the risk of it messing up the trim is low

tescos has it


dave