RE: door outer waist seal clips

["Vincenti, Ross" <Ross.Vincenti@transamerica.com>]

Peter Zaborski wrote:
[snip]These seals are held in place with U-shaped clips made of spring 
steel which have "hooks" to grab the rubber of the seal and the lip of the 
door metal. The TR6 parts catalogs all list only one clip type for
the car (14 of them are required to do both doors).   On my TR6 (76) the 
doors have a slightly longer lip towards the back of the door to which the 
seal attaches. This part of the lip is about 3/16" longer than the rubber 
seal. This means the clips which work on the rest of the door are too 
"shallow" at this point - the clip hooks grab only the very tip of the 
seal.
I have one slightly deeper clip which was on my car on one door
and this would nicely solve the problem. The question is where can I get
a couple more of these longer/deepr clips to use on the rear part of the
seal?
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Peter - Just about any good commercial fastener shop/warehouse should be 
able to supply the parts you are looking for.  I know exactly what you mean
as my Spitfire had a similar problem on one section of the door.  
Fortunately, mine are still holding, but I assume it is only a matter of 
time before a couple of them let go.
Ross D. Vincenti
Asst. General Counsel/Asst. Sec'ty.
Transamerica Home Loan - Legal Division
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 742-4756
(213) 741-6945 or 742-4010 fax
ross.vincenti@transamerica.com
64 Spitfire 4
64 Porsche 356C Coupe