[Rovernet] R: Vinyl roof
gianluca.ruotolo at enel.com
gianluca.ruotolo at enel.com
Fri Mar 28 06:24:44 EDT 2014
Dear freinds, I must cover a roof with new vinyl.
Please which material do you use?
Where do you buy it?
any address?
And the glue?
And to end, did someone do it himself?
I wonder if it is difficult or not.
Best regards and thanks in advance!
Ciao, best regards, Gianluca.
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Da: Rovernet [mailto:rovernet-bounces at rovernet.org] Per conto di louatlcf at aol.com
Inviato: mercoledì 19 marzo 2014 22:52
A: rovernet at rovernet.org
Oggetto: Re: [Rovernet] Rare bits wanted
Hi:
My wheels are welded and are now obviously Magnum 500's. I have a NOS 5 inch Dunlop Servo in a box that I bought recently. The car has a 7 inch Girling that the factory introduced on my particular suffix 'A' model model. The car was sold in May 1966 per the records I have. I managed to buy a couple of sets of NOS brake pads two sets of NOS rear brake rotors and a set of NOS rear hand brake pads as well. I have on NOS front Dunlo rotor which looks like it would be easy to copy by machining one from billet steel if the car ever needed front rotors.
I am not sure I am blessed or cursed having a rare early version of a Rover NADA 2000TC. The surprises never end...
Lou
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From: Vern Klukas <vern at inkspotco.com>
To: Rovernet <rovernet at rovernet.org>
Sent: Wed, Mar 19, 2014 1:36 pm
Subject: Re: [Rovernet] Rare bits wanted
When they introduced the combined tach & clock housing, it was offered as a kit to upgrade the A suffix TCs. I wouldn’t be surprised to find that the dealer upgraded the car on their lot to bring it into line with the B cars they had received as well. And the Magstars would make sense in that scenario as well, as it would be much cheaper than fitting the Magnums.
I owned a 66 TC a long time ago, before I knew much about them. In hindsight, while it was least one of the first “A” TCs it had other features (under dash lamps, Dunlop booster and master cylinder, black steering wheel, steel wheels for a start) that make me think it was more of a production prototype that they sold on rather than ship it back to Britain. Long ago lost the paperwork for it so we’ll never know it’s serial number.
Further tidbit: The Dunlop system started out with a Dunlop master cylinder, but changed to a Girling cylinder around May of 66. I don’t know when they changed to the Girling booster.
Yours
Vern
On Mar 19, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Kent Kinard <kkinard at att.net> wrote:
> Lou,
> If the wheels and hubs are 4.75, they are not Rostyles, they are Magnum 500.
Easy way to tell the difference: Rostyles are riveted. Magnum 500s are welded construction. If your centers are welded to the rims, they are Magnum 500.
Otherwise, it is difficult to tell the difference. They look very much alike from the front side.
> 4.75 inch bolt circle, welded construction, and larger studs mean Magnum 500.
Congratulations. You have the rare ones.
>
> I have a 66 w. Dunlops, single Girling booster(although I do have a
> Dunlop
booster) and later style Tacholmeter installation, but I think it came with Magstars. It is a rusty hulk, but now I'm going to have to check the bolt circle. It's been in the back pasture for fifteen years or more. I like the Dunlop brakes, but setting them up is a special skill.
>
> Roverly,
> Kent K.
>
> louatlcf at aol.com wrote:
> Hi: Being at least the third owner of my 1966 Rover 2000TC (suffix A)
> I don't
know if the car came with Rostyles or not, however, I know the hubs can have two different size studs. My car has the larger stud size and is the last model using the Dunlop calipers and the only model that has the 7 inch Servo used on Girling equipped cars I read this was done only for a few of the early cars like mine. The five bolt pattern I measured has a 4.75 inch bolt circle diameter of
4.75 inch. The spare in the boot is mounted on a Rostyle wheel as well. I know what a Magstar looks like but not the Magnum is the Magnum similar to the Rostyle? If they look the same what is the difference? Please educate me. Lou -----Original Message----- From: Alan Francis <partviking1 at gmail.com> To:
Rovernet <rovernet at rovernet.org> Sent: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 11:52 pm Subject: Re:
[Rovernet] Rare bits wanted >From personal experience I can testify that Rostyles will not fit a car with Dunlop brakes as there is insufficient room to allow the wheel to seat on the hub before hitting the outside caliper pod. Alan Francis (partviking) On Tuesday, March 18, 2014, Vern Klukas <vern at inkspotco.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Lou
>>>
>>> Your car undoubtedly didn't come with Rostyles originally. They
>>> quite possibly were installed by a dealer after the Rostyles became
>>> available, or perhaps just later on in the car's life. Are you
>>> certain they aren't actually Magnums? Have you tried putting a steel wheel on?
>>>
>>> The September 1966 service newsletter is the first mention of Magnum
>>> wheels, warning that tires chains cannot be fitted to NADA cars so
>>> equipped. The same month Rover issued special newsletter introducing
>>> the TC & Automatic. Magnum wheels are not mentioned, but then wheels
>>> period aren't mentioned.
>>>
>>> I have a late 67 North American sales brochure that lists "Mag-styled"
>>> wheels as an option, as well as the Magstar wheel. Elsewhere they
>>> refer to the wheel as Ro-style. But this is late for your car, which
>>> must be an A suffix to be Dunlop braked.
>>>
>>> In the June 1968 newsletter, Rover lists the parts needed to convert
>>> a steel wheeled car to Rostyles, along with the note that only
>>> Girling braked cars can be converted (leading back to my wondering
>>> if you don't have Magnum wheels)
>>>
>>> I have some more material somewhere on the Magnum/Rostyle deal, just
>>> have to find it.
>>>
>>> Yours
>>> Vern
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 16, 2014, at 4:58 PM, LouatLCF at aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a 1966 Rover 2000TC equipped with Dunlop brakes and a single
>>>> 7
>>> inch servo one of the first imported and I have Rostyle wheels. See
>>> attached Pics. I didn't think there were an earlier version, if so
>>> must be rarer than my car.
>>>>
>>>> Lou
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: scott kohl <sdkgt6 at yahoo.com>
>>>> To: Rovernet <rovernet at rovernet.org>
>>>> Sent: Sun, Mar 16, 2014 12:25 pm
>>>> Subject: Re: [Rovernet] Rare bits wanted
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The story I have, that I have seen recounted on sites from both
>>>> sides of
>>> the
>>>> Atlantic, is that when the TC came out in late '65, Rover wanted to
>>> offer a
>>>> sporty wheel option for the US cars, but Rostyle did not have a
>>>> wheel
>>> with the 5
>>>> on 5 pattern, so they made a deal with Magnum in the US to use
>>>> their
>>> wheels.
>>>> The pattern closest to 5 on 5 was the GM 5 on 4.75, so when a US TC
>>>> was
>>> ordered
>>>> with Magnums, the front and rear hubs were machined just for each car.
>>> This
>>>> changed sometime during 1967 when 5 on 5 Rostyles came on line, it
>>> appears no
>>>> one knows exactly when. Your '67 will have 5 on 5 hubs. I have
>>>> read
>>> posts on
>>>> the Classic Rover Forum from a gentleman in CA who hads an early TC
>>>> with
>>> the
>>>> Magnums. He also has a set of Magstars, and has stated that he has
>>>> to
>>> swap the
>>>> hubs to make the wheel change, and he was going to have to make a
>>> decision about
>>>> which to use permanently because he was tired of doing so much work.
>>> That is
>>>> what makes these hubs so
>>>> damn hard to find, they were on less that a years' worth of cars,
>>>> and
>>> only cars
>>>> ordered with Magnums. There is a thread on the Rover site
>>>> comparing
>>> pictures of
>>>> Magnums and Rostyles in Rover's own sales brochures, and you can
>>>> see the
>>> gap
>>>> between the wheelnut and center is different. At least one of the
>>> Magnum fitted
>>>> cars was re-imported to the UK, the chap who brought it in attested
>>>> to
>>> the
>>>> difference. He said his finger didn't fit inside the nut on the
>>>> Magnum,
>>> it did
>>>> easily with the Rostyle. If you're curious I can look up and cite
>>>> the
>>> web
>>>> addresses to the pages discussing this issue.
>>>>
>>>> Scott
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ah... Scott... they're all the same hubs. On my '67 2000TC, that
>>>> came
>>> with
>>>> Magstar wheels, I've run Rostyles and SD1 wheels. Having owned
>>>> this
>>> car, and
>>>> several others, for just short of 44 years I've never seen a
>>>> different
>>> spec hub
>>>> or wheel. Have another look.
>>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>> On Sun, 3/16/14, gjkzscruggs at verizon.net <gjkzscruggs at verizon.net>
>>> wrote:
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