johnhodges

Hi Denis I have attempted to fit windows in a variety of vehicles and caravans over the years. I learnt many years ago that it is a skill that you cannot acquire as a one off, like carpet fitting, or dentistry, it's well worth paying your local windscreen fitter the £60 to do it for you. The last one I had fitted was the bay type front window on my Eriba caravan, the windscreen chap I've used before well earned his money and he's done hundreds in his career. John

Hi Roger I may have a few baby tenax, PM me. John

Thanks Bob I know the complete set is TR3, I wondered if the top section was the same on the 2.

I have this trim which I bought years ago but never fitted, it's obviously repro. and stainless rather than chrome, but send me a PM if interested. John

Hi Stan Can you please let me know where you can get a full restoration for 20k John

We seem to have two threads running on this topic, one on this forum and one on members chat. below is my reply to the last post on members chat. Hi Hamish Both myself and the other John are sure he's not kosher. See the last post for lack of contact details for one. He is initially so convincing that he is a genuine enthusiast who wants "your" car, but when he agrees to your price without quibbling and the next day he's driving down from Merseyside with his "mechanic" and a trailer to do the deal and take your car away there and then with presumably a bank transfer (which are NOT irrevocable), then it makes you very wary, never mind all the other classics he's advertising for. My best guess would be that he's hoping for a bereaved seller who is not really aware of the true values or some sort of payment scam. The only way to be sure is for someone to call his bluff and actually partly go along the deal, and when he and his mechanic turn up have plenty of backup waiting in the wings. I'm not volunteering! John H

Thank you Wayne for investigating this. I'm surprised that mister jay is a fully paid up member of the Register, having spoken to him, (but not actually met him), although he actually said he was disappointed when I wouldn't sell my car to him as he'd joined his local car club in anticipation, and cleared out his garage. I am particularly surprised as apparently he was trying to stock his cleared out garage with all the other marques he was advertising for in other club magazines. You won't convince me that mister jay is genuinely looking to buy a TR/MG/Healey/etc. (name a classic). John

I see it's over 4 months since I came across misterjayatkins, and I would have hoped by now whoever is in charge of accepting the ads for TRaction would have investigated him. Is he putting these ads in free, or is he paying for them as the "trader" (or worse) that he obviously is. My feeling after speaking to him is that he is definitely nor kosher. John

Yes most probably, but posing as a private buyer and an extremely plausible one. I found it quite disturbing to find out that I wasn't selling my cherished TR to a private individual but a dealer who was going to make a profit on a resale. Plus a still suspect that a potential scam was involved and I hope the Register will be able to block these adverts. John

Also in the last TRaction.

PM sent

Hi David Or just a thought you could convert a LHD one and as it's a race car, blank off the glove box and speed/rev counter holes, cut the holes for the speedo/rev counter on the right side, together with the steering wheel recess, and either make a dummy glove box, or leave it blank, with additional instruments like a rally car after all the centre instrument panel is the same. All recovered in vinyl should look fine.

PM sent John

I've sent you a PM John