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Anyone got a good picture of the TR2 brass body number plate or just the measures, mine is missing.

Thanks to Bill Pigott I now have the body number and some other data that Heritage register didn't have.

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You can have replacement body and build tags made. I think our forum friend Frank Angelini does them, yes? (Others will know for sure. TRTags as user name, ISTR?)

 

Here's a vendor who resells his work:

http://www.zeni.net/trf/miniTR2TR3/38.php?s_wt=1440&s_ht=803

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You can have replacement body and build tags made. I think our forum friend Frank Angelini does them, yes? (Others will know for sure. TRTags as user name, ISTR?)

 

Here's a vendor who resells his work:

http://www.zeni.net/trf/miniTR2TR3/38.php?s_wt=1440&s_ht=803

Shown as NLS in the catalogue now.

Stuart.

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Frank made me a Brass tag, excellent repro.

 

attachicon.gifBrass tag2.JPG

 

Size of (an original) tag is 3½" long, by 3/4" wide with 3/8" radiused ends

 

Bob.

 

Thank you, I think I'll have a go myself.

I already tried TRF and saw what Stuart saw, NLS.

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The TRF link was more for photos than anything else.

 

See your pm for Frank's email. Suggest going directly to him to see what he can do for you.

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I do know Frank is still doing them for individuals as he has just done some for a friend of mine in France.

Stuart.

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The only comment I would make regarding the Frank made ones is the end shaping. The originals had a constant radius at each end which was exactly half the width of the plate. Franks has smaller radiuses on all 4 corners, Nit picking I know ! The number stampings are spot on.

 

Bob.

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The only comment I would make regarding the Frank made ones is the end shaping. The originals had a constant radius at each end which was exactly half the width of the plate. Franks has smaller radiuses on all 4 corners, Nit picking I know ! The number stampings are spot on.

 

Bob.

 

The brass stock that Frank uses is thinner than the originals and I also did a little re-shaping of the one he sent me but these were minor issues in an otherwise very good reproduction.

 

Stan

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Like Chris I would also like to contact Frank to get a brass tag made up. I have the 7 figure bodyshell number but not the number commencing with an "EB". Can anyone help me as to where I can get information as to how to track this one down.

Thanks to one and all in anticipation.

Cheers

Gordon

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Like Chris I would also like to contact Frank to get a brass tag made up. I have the 7 figure bodyshell number but not the number commencing with an "EB". Can anyone help me as to where I can get information as to how to track this one down.

Thanks to one and all in anticipation.

Cheers

Gordon

 

I have both the Heritage cert and a Bill Piggott trace and neither of them include the EB tag number. The Heritage cert included no body numbers, the Bill P trace provided my missing body number. If all else fails you could make up an age appropriate EB number and nobody would really know that it wasnt original.

 

Stan

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This has been discussed before on the forum, & the consensus was no, there is no way to establish the original EB No. if tag is lost, & to guess it is a bit pointless, + you may choose a number which is currently on someone else's car.

 

Bob.

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Got a mail from Frank Angelini telling me he's had email problems for some months, so tried to reply that I'm still interested in a body number tag, but my reply doesn't reach him "due to incorrect SMTP prompt at the host" so if anyone know whereabouts he lives I might find a snail mail address and try contact the old fashioned way.

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