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> Look at the green unrestored twin cam, YD1/2611, and the blue 1500 on
> page 36 in the "Original MGA." Notice the blue 1500 has no studs
> although they may have been welded shut on this restored example.
I'll take a look.
> The problem may be that all 1600s may have had the two outermost front
> studs for the tonneau already fitted because of access problems when
> the car was completely fitted out. When the 1500 tonneau was fitted to
> your 1600, you've got two studs in the wrong place.
My car is actually a 1500, which has a "mostly 1600" set of studs.
That is, the studs on the cowl are like those on a 1600, and there
are no studs on the tops of the doors. OK, so far it looks like
this car was set up for a 1600-style tonneau cover. But... It has
the 1500-style short tonneau studs on the trim piece behind the
passenger compartment, and all of these pieces look original. That's
the strange thing about this. I suppose that at some point after
the 1600 style tonneau cover was installed and lost, the trim piece
might have been swapped out with one from a 1500 with a short
tonneau cover, but what explains the lack of studs on the tonneau
itself, to acommodate the 1600-style long tonneau cover? And there's
no indication that those studs were removed and the holes filled.
*That's* the real mystery.
I was hoping that I might discover that this car had come with
some limited-production "transitional" tonneau cover design, hand-
sewn by Syd Enever for the Earls Court Motor Show, of tremendous
historic importance, which would be worth custom replication; :-)
but there's no mention of a tonneau cover on the BMIHT certificate.
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